St Peter’s Church, Parwich is a

Grade II* listed In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, H ...

parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the Church (building), church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in com ...

in the

Church of England The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, ...

in Parwich,

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It borders Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire to the north, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the south-east, Staffordshire to the south a ...

History

The medieval church was demolished and the current building of Coxbench stone erected between 1872 and 1873 by

Henry Isaac Stevens Henry Isaac Stevens FRIBA was an architect based in Derby. He was born in London, in 1806, and died in 1873. In the late 1850s he changed his name to Isaac Henry Stevens. Family His parents were Isaac Stevens and Elizabeth Young. He married An ...

and Frederick Josias Robinson, funded by Sir Thomas William Evans. It was opened on 17 October 1873. The carving was executed by

Harry Hems Harry Hems (12 June 1842 – 5 January 1916) was an English architectural and ecclesiastical sculptor who was particularly inspired by Gothic architecture and a practitioner of Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival. He founded and ran a la ...

, sculptor of Exeter, and the contractor was W.H. and J. Slater of Derby.

Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with * St Michael and All Angels’ Church, Alsop-en-le-Dale * St Edmund’s Church, Fenny Bentley *St Leonard’s Church, Thorpe *

St Mary's Church, Tissington St Mary’s Church, Tissington is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Tissington, Derbyshire. History The church dates from the 12th century, and the chancel and south porch still date from this time. The doorway has a ...

Organ

The church contains a pipe organ by Abbott and Smith dating from 1873. A specification of the organ can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Parwich Church of England church buildings in Derbyshire Grade II* listed churches in Derbyshire Churches completed in 1873

History

Parish status

Organ

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