Chesterfield is nationally famous for its crooked spire, of which it is difficult to disagree with Pevsner's assessment of "comically twisted". This characterful accident however, most likely caused by the timbers warping shortly after construction, is not all that this impressive building has to offer. The main impression of this church is of elegant late Dec-turning-Perp usually found in the north-west Midlands (John Maddison has proposed a date in the 1390s). However, the N transept has an elegant Early English Gothic arcade that points to a church of some ambition and sophistication before the great 14thc rebuilding.
The church is cruciform with an aisled nave with a S porch, transepts with 4 chapels, a crossing tower with a spire and a chancel. It is of ashlar and the N transept was rebuilt in 1769 and the church restored by Gilbert Scott in 1843.
The only Romanesque feature is the font.
