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| The Thornhill family crest at Holy Trinity church |
Entering Stanton in Peak, having previous walked from Rowtor Rocks up Main Street in Birchover before having a brief exploration of the geology and archaeology of Stanton Moor, I took a short diversion off Lees Road to get a view down to Shining Bank Quarry in the mid distance.
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| A view to Shining Bank Quarry |
My walk had started at the south-west end of the outlier of Ashover Grit that underlies Stanton Moor and I had ascended from 230 m at the top of The Mires to a maximum of 320 m when crossing the heather covered moorland, before dropping down to 276 m at my viewpoint, which is underlain by siltstones and shales of the Marsden Formation.
From here to the confluence of the Ivy Bar Brook with the River Lathkilll, the geology changes to the older mudstones of the Bowland Shale Formation, which is itself underlain by firstly the Lower Carboniferous Widmerpool Formation and then the Eyam Limestone Formation at an elevation of 123 m – all of which are partly covered by glacial tll laid down during the Pleistocene Epoch.
Continuing down Lees Road, which here is very steep, I looked for the first of 19 buildings, gatepiers, boundary walls and railings that were part of the British Listed Buildings Photo Challenge that I had prepared for Stanton in Peak.
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| The Photo Challenge for Stanton in Peak |
The Grade II Listed Wesleyan Reform Chapel (1829) and attached railings was easy to spot, with its tall round arched windows and oval plaque with its name and date inscribed into it. It is built with well coursed and squared buff/pink coloured locally quarried gritstone with a tooled finish in a herringbone pattern and a plain tile roof.
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| The Wesleyan Reform Chapel |
The Thornhill family based at Stanton Hall was responsible for building most of the houses in the village, which largely date from the C17 and C18 and, with the exception of small areas of C20 infill development that have been excluded from the Conservation Area, it remains essentially the same as shown on the 1898 Ordnance Survey map.
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| The 1898 Ordnance Survey map of Stanton in Peak |
Continuing past the junction with Birchover Road/Main Road, I photographed a few of the houses that are marked on this map and which form a tight-knit group on the north side of Main Road to the east of Stanton Hall.
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| Houses on Lees Road and Main Road |
The next building on my list was the Grade II Listed early C18 Woodside, which is again built with squared and coursed buff/pink Ashover Grit, with more massive quoins and dressings and plain tiles replacing the original stone slates on the roof.
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| Woodside |
Further down Main Road, more C18 houses are crammed into a fairly limited space, with some of these set parallel to the road and others at right angles. Amongst these is the late C18 Swallow’s Hole, a cottage that was previously Grade II Listed but was subsequently removed from the National Heritage List in 2020.
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| Houses on Main Road |
Carrying on down the hill is Yew Tree Cottage (1759), a Grade II Listed house that has dense hedges growing behind its garden walls and it was only possible to get glimpses of it. The gable end is largely covered in ivy, but from what I could see, it has gritstone walls and a plain tile roof.
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| Views of Yew Tree Cottage |
Crossing over the road, the gatepiers at the roadside entrance to the Grade II* Listed Stanton Hall, which dates back to at least the early C18, was the nearest I got to this seat of the Thornhill family, but I was able to see another pair of gatepiers at the end of the drive.
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| Gatepiers at Stanton Hall |
Opposite the churchyard is the Grade II Listed late C18 Church View, which I had somehow omitted from the list of buildings on my Photo Challenge but it was included in a general view down Main Road. It provides a further example of the locally quarried Ashover Grit and it has retained its original stone slate roof.
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| Church View |
Holy Trinity church (1838) was not part of my Photo Challenge, as someone had already photographed it, but I popped into the churchyard mainly to take photographs of the rear elevation of Ivy House. This Early English Gothic style church wasn’t open but I had a very quick look at its exterior, where the most interesting feature that I noted was the Thornhill family crest above the west door of the tower.
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| Holy Trinity church |
Leaving the churchyard, I immediately stopped at the unlisted war memorial (1926) to take a couple of photos of what the Imperial War Museum describes as a potent cross, before going to photograph several listed buildings on Park Lane and Middle Street.
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| The war memorial |
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