St John the Baptist Church, Buxton

In 1896 the architect Sir Authur Blomfield redesigned the nave and the original east portico was enclosed to form the chancel.

The large pediment on the facade is supported by undecorated Tuscan-style columns and is inscribed prominently with MDCCCXI.

[2]The church is in a joint parish with The organ was installed by William Hill & Son of London in 1897.

[5] Anne Lister visited here on 16 August 1816, and wrote, "At a little distance is the church, one of the neatest and most beautiful little buildings of the kind I ever saw.

It has not been finished long, and is of fine free stone like the Crescent, the walls the same within as without, the plain stone looking infinitely better than any plaster, paint, or whitewash, tho' some think the appearance cold – the 2 interior doors are thro' a sort of porch, supported by 4 handsome Ionic columns [sic], each of one block.

St John's Buxton original East Entrance
Chancel