---
title: "St Michael, Pleasley"
description: "Located in Pleasley, Derbyshire. Built C12, C13, C14 and C19. Diocese of Derby. Grade II*. Norman and later medieval style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Derbyshire","Pleasley","Grade II*","Norman","Diocese of Derby"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-michael-pleasley"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:31:33.901Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:30:02.233Z"
location: "Pleasley, Derbyshire"
country: "England"
county: "Derbyshire"
town: "Pleasley"
address: "Church Lane, Pleasley, Derbyshire, NG19 7DT"
postcode: "NG19 7DT"
built: "C12, C13, C14 and C19"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Michael"]
diocese: "Derby"
grade: "II*"
style: "Norman and later medieval"
materials: "Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings; Welsh slate roofs"
website: "https://derbyshirechurches.org/church/pleasley-st-michael"
openingHours: "Please contact us for keyholder details."
parish: "Pleasley St Michael"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1108926"
gridReference: "SK 504 646"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Michael, Pleasley

St Michael is a Grade II* parish church on Church Lane in Pleasley, Derbyshire, in the Diocese of Derby, close to the River Meden.

## Overview

Historic England records a parish church of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth and nineteenth centuries, of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and Welsh slate roofs with stone coped gables. The plan is a west tower, nave with south porch, and chancel with north vestry. The tower has a moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses, two unequal stages, a blocked four-centred west doorway and a four-centred three-light west window, two-light bell-openings, gargoyles, battlements and four crocketed pinnacles.

The interior retains a twelfth-century chancel arch with a double billet frieze on the label and two roll mouldings, and a twelfth-century font with figures carved in relief. A second font under the tower is a plain octagonal bowl dated 1662. The listing notes a Jacobean-style pulpit from Derby Cathedral, mid-Victorian stained glass in the east window, and a nineteenth-century south window internally shafted and panelled to form a sedilia. Roofs are nineteenth century.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1108926](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1108926)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Michael](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101108926-church-of-st-michael-pleasley)
- [Derbyshire HER MDR6391](https://her.derbyshire.gov.uk/Monument/MDR6391)