Please use this link to cite this page - https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=4984.
Find out how to cite the CRSBI website here.
The church consists of a chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, and a tower at the W end. The current church is predominantly of the 14thc, including the S aisle with an arcade of octagonal piers, and Perpendicular E windows. The tower, the N aisle and other windows were added in the 19thc c.1842.
The only Romanesque feature is a lintel, found on the exterior of the E wall of the N aisle.
Mention of the church at Shirley (Sirelei), and one priest, can be found in Domesday Book. The Norman knight, Henry de Ferrers, was the tenant-in-chief. Fulcher, son of Sewall, rented land in Shirley c.1130 (Cox 1877, 269).
J. C. Cox, Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire, Vol. 3, Chesterfield 1877.
N. Pevsner and E. Williamson, The Buildings of England, Derbyshire, London 1978, 318.
