Heath (formerly Lowne, Lowne in Heath or Lunt) is a village in the North East Derbyshire district of the county, 5 miles SE of Chesterfield. The former church of Heath, recorded here, was on the E side of the village, and was replaced by was replaced by the present church of All Saints, half a mile to the W, in 1852-53. In Pevsner (1953) the remains of the old church are described as being a quarter mile to the east of its Victorian successor, and while it was true that they could be reached by walking down Church Lane in 1953, that is no longer the case, since the construction of the M1 in 1965-67 and the subsequent opening of the A617 dual carriageway linking it to Chesterfield, the old church has been effectively cut off from the village. Access is possible from the A617 from Chesterfield, at a dead end junction a few yards before the Heath roundabout. Unfortunately Pevsner's original directions to the church have been retained in later editions.

The original church consisted of nave, chancel, N aisle W tower and S porch (see Cox, I, 255). What stands today in the old churchyard is the south porch still in-situ, and the remains of a mortuary chapel that was constructed from masonry from the demolished church. This is approximately twice the size of the porch, forming a rectangle with its long side extending northwards. The porch stands to the level of the entrance arch imposts, and in the position of the S doorway are jambs constructed from large chevron blocks, described below.

Heath (Lowne) was held by Stenulf in 1066 and by Roger of Poitou in 1086. It was assessed at 2 carucates. In the 12thc, the manor was bestowed by Robert de Ferrers on the Cistercian monks of Garendon (Leics) The church was given to the Premonstratensian house of Croxton Kerrial (Leics) in 1162 by William, Count of Boulogne (presumably by will, as he died in 1159) as a foundation gift, and it remained in that abbey's possession until the Dissolution.

Cox 1, 258 took the view that the chevron jambs of the doorway came from the chancel arch of the church, which he suggests would have been similar to that at Ault Hucknall (Notts) not far away. While agreeing that the arch was probably a chancel arch, none of the chevron forms match that at Ault Hucknall closely. There are two designs of chevron; one hyphenated with a cogwheel edge and the other lateral chevron with a plain edge. It seems likely that the cogwheel edge marked the inner order of an arch. Hyphenated chevron is unlikely to occur before 1160-70. The porch entrance jambs are suggested to date 'not later than the fourteenth century by Cox.

Two sketches of the old church were reported by Cox in 1875 to be in the possession of Rev. H. Cottingham, Vicar of Heath and Ault Hucknall.