St Michael And All Angels

C15, restored by Butterfield 1851-52, and with extensions and minor alterations in 1949.

Moulded string course with gargoyles separates earlier work and C15 crenellations to parapet.

C15 crocketed octagonal spire.

Four bay nave with C15 clerestory, having flat-headed, two-light windows with mouchettes above cusped ogee-headed lights.

South aisle mid C15 of two bays with stepped buttresses, one between the windows, the other angled at the east end, with tapering crocketed pinnacles.

Restored three-light east window with flowing tracery beneath a hoodmould with carved stops.

Former chantry chapel circa 1459, of two bays with gabled east end, and crenellated parapet above moulded string course to north wall.

Angle buttresses to corners and stepped buttress between north wall windows, with gargoyle above.

Octagonal font of chalice form with heraldic shields of the Eyre, Barnake and Padley families on three facets, and carved decoration to the others.

The north chancel chapel, added in 1463 as a chantry chapel to the Eyre family, with a shallow pointed arch giving access from the north aisle.

The chancel has a C14 two-light window to the north wall, above an elaborate ogee arched recess having a chest tomb to Robert Eyre of 1459 and his wife, Joan, with brasses reset in a slab of crinoidal limestone, together with brasses to their children.

The east window has glass by Kempe, originally in Derwent Church, but reset in Hathersage in 1948, following the creation of Derwent reservoir and the submersion of the church.

Chancel south wall has an ogee headed piscina and triple sedilia, both late C14, beneath a continuous string course which steps up above the pointed arched doorway now enclosed by the vestry.

Other monuments to the Eyre family have been reset in the chancel south wall

Radulph Eyre, d. 1493

his wife Elizabeth, and Sir Arthur Eyre, c.1560.

The brasses to Robert Eyre, c.1500, his wife and some of their children have been reset in the recess of the main Eyre chest tomb, and the brasses to what are thought to be two of their daughters, have been reset in the chancel south wall.