Heritage sites in CALOW PARISH

English Heritage sites near Calow Parish

SUTTON SCARSDALE HALL

2 miles from Calow Parish

The imposing shell of a grandiose Georgian mansion built in 1724-29, with an immensely columned exterior. Roofless since 1919, when its interiors were dismantled and some exported to America.

BOLSOVER CUNDY HOUSE

4 miles from Calow Parish

This charming cottage-like 17th-century conduit house, with vaulted stone-slab roof, once supplied water to Bolsover Castle.

BOLSOVER CASTLE

4 miles from Calow Parish

'By an unlikely miracle, the keep at Bolsover has survived into this century as an almost untouched expression in stone of the lost world of Elizabethan chivalry and romance.'

HARDWICK OLD HALL

5 miles from Calow Parish

The remodelled family home of Bess of Hardwick, one of the richest and most remarkable women of Elizabethan England, stands beside the New Hall she raised later in the 1590s.

HOB HURST'S HOUSE

8 miles from Calow Parish

A square prehistoric burial mound with an earthwork ditch and outer bank. Named after a local goblin.

WINGFIELD MANOR

10 miles from Calow Parish

The vast and immensely impressive ruins of a palatial medieval manor house, with a huge undercrofted Great Hall and a defensible High Tower 22 metres (72 feet) tall.

Churches in Calow Parish

St Peter

Top Road Calow Chesterfield
07754763211

St Peter's, Calow is a Victorian (Grade II listed) church prominently situated immediately to the east of Chesterfield on the main road to Bolsover. It is usually open on Sundays from 9.00am until 11.30pm, often for longer, and on other days as well. It serves a community of around 3,000 people and is part of a united benefice which includes St Mary's, Sutton Scarsdale . On the first Wednesday there is a coffee morning from 1030-12 and on the third Wednesday a parish lunch from 12-1330

St Peter's has always been in the catholic tradition, and the PCC requested that alternative episcopal oversight be granted by The Bishop of Derby . The parish is now under the pastoral care of The Bishop of Ebbsfleet. The ethos is best described as Anglo Catholic. Vestments, incense and bells are used at the 10am Sung Eucharist and the blessed sacrament is perpetually reserved, Common Worship Order 1 usually is used, traditional hymns predominate .
Between a quarter and a third of the regular congregation live outside the parish, but the majority of those are former residents. Patients and staff from the nearby Royal Hospital bring variety to the congregation from time to time.

A Parish Safeguarding Officer is in place covering the whole benefice and the parish uses the Derby Diocesan standard provision for the care of vulnerable people.