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Buxton Methodist Church plays an important role at the heart of our community, prominently located on Buxton Market Place, where it is often the first port of call for those seeking help in our community, for visitors to the town and new arrivals.

Sir Walter Chetwynd of Ingestre Hall, the 17th century politician and antiquary, was a friend of Sir Christopher Wren and a fellow member of the Royal Society.

This particularly fine church was built during the first half of the 14th century and there have been few alterations since then, it gives a very good impression of English gothic architecture just before the advent of The Black Death.

The Victorian Holy Trinity is known as the ‘new church’ to distinguish it from the partially ruined old church.

The church stands on an imposing site with the east wall of the chancel facing Hall Yard.

Georgian and was built out of limestone in 1754, the church is widely regarded as one of the smallest complete churches in England with a nave just 21ft long, the tiny apsidal chancel gives some idea of the scale.

Mentioned in the Doomsday Book in 1086, St Edward the Confessor is situated on land formerly owned by Kolsveinn, Lord of Brattleby and tenant in chief of more than fifty manors in the county at that time.

St Wilfrid’s church is considered to have one of the finest examples of the early work of Sir Ninian Comper.

The treasures inside include two notable medieval monuments to past rectors, the most prominent is of William de Harrington, who died around 1350, dressed in cassock and hood with a skull cap, his feet are supported on a bracket decorated with a green man and his head on a pillow supported on two angels.

St Saviour’s is the memorial church to Parkin Jeffcock, a mining engineer who was killed during rescue operations after the Oaks Colliery Disaster in 1866.

Blyton church is dedicated to St Martin, best known for the account of his using his military sword to cut his cloak in two, to give half to a beggar clad only in rags in the depth of winter.