Catholic Church of the English Martyrs is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1997. Church. 1 related planning application.

Catholic Church of the English Martyrs

WRENN ID
guardian-railing-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peak District National Park
Constituency
Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1997
Type
Church
Address
Catholic Church of the English Martyrs, Buxton Road, Bakewell, Derbyshire Dales
OS grid reference
SK 216 686
Coordinates
53.21452, -1.67662
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Catholic Church of the English Martyrs is a church built in 1849, constructed from ashlar sandstone with a rubble limestone rear and a slate roof. The building features one to four bays, with the first bay projecting and gabled, and it is raised over a schoolroom. The church is oriented north-south, following ritual orientation.

The exterior includes gabled pilasters at the corners and between the bays, a tall plinth with an offset above pairs of lancet windows in the basement, and a chamfered sill band beneath the tall lancets that illuminate the main body of the church. The gable of bay one has a round-arched door, and within the plinth, there is a lancet window and a vesica. A pointed-arched door on the right side is accessed by a flight of steps, flanked by an ashlar side wall and two lancet openings below. The eaves cornice features shaped kneelers and moulded gable copings, with a roll-finial atop the front gable. The east end has taller buttresses that flank a stepped three-light window beneath a louvred vesica, and the center of the gable is raised as a parapet with a carved apex finial.

Inside, there is a west gallery supported by decorative queen-post trusses adorned with Gothic Revival panels, arched braces with mouchettes, and pendants. The church was originally built as a Congregational Church with a schoolroom located underneath.

Local climate

Catholic Church of the English Martyrs sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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