St Peter's Church, Belper is a

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parish church in the

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Belper Belper () is a town and civil parish in the local government district of Amber Valley in Derbyshire, England, located about north of Derby on the River Derwent. Along with Belper, the parish includes the village of Milford and the hamlets ...

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 church was built to the designs of the architect

Matthew Habershon Matthew Habershon (1789–1852) was an English people, English architect. Biography Habershon, born in 1789, came from a Yorkshire family. In 1806 he was articled to the architect William Atkinson (architect), William Atkinson, with whom he remai ...

. The designs were exhibited at the

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of 1824. The church was consecrated by the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Rt. Revd. Henry Ryder on 6 September 1824.

Parish status

The church is in a joint parish with: *St Swithun's Church, Belper *St Mark's Church, Openwoodgate, Belper

Memorials

*George Brettle, 1835 by Sir Richard Westmacott.

Organ

The first organ dating from around 1754 was installed second hand from the old chapel of St John. It was sold to

St Luke's Church, Heage St Luke's Church, Heage is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Heage, Derbyshire. History There was a church in existence by 1343 as Nicholas of High Edge (Heage) is recorded as the first priest. The medieval church wa ...

when a new organ was provided by William Holt of Bradford at a cost of 300 guineas (), and was opened on 22 December 1853. This was rebuilt in 1873 by Radcliffe & Sagar of Woodhouse Lane in Leeds enlarging it to become an instrument of 3-manual & pedals. In 1902 J.H. Adkins of Derby overhauled the organ and made some tonal changes. In 1978/9 some further work was done by Edmund Stow. A specification of the current organ can be found on the

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Organists

*Isaac Hanson ca. 1860 *W. A. Shaw ???? - 1871 (afterwards organist of Salem Chapel, Belper) * Thomas Barker Mellor 1871 - 1877 *Walter Wardle Windle F.C.O. 1882 - 1930 (formerly organist of Brimington) *Reginald G. Harvey 1930 - ????

Bells

The church tower contains 8 bells all cast in 1925 by John Taylor of Loughborough.

Clock

A new clock by

John Moore & Sons John Moore & Sons of Clerkenwell was a London-based clockmaker. For most of its history the firm's factory and main office was at 38-39 Clerkenwell Close, described in the 1850s as being 'situated in the very heart of the London watch and clock tra ...

was installed in the tower in 1864.

References

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St Peter's Church