page_title: Chapel-en-le-Frith
section_title: Church of St Thomas Becket
hierarchical_section_title: Chapel-en-le-Frith / Church of St Thomas Becket
caption_attribution_description: English: Church Tower. Church of Saint Thomas Becket,built AD 1225. To the left of the tower is a stone column with a sun-dial on top,protected by metal railings, which is some 300 years old. The sun-dial affixed to the church porch was showing 1pm, when the correct time was 2.30pm. Allowing for BST, it is still half an hour wrong! For close-up, see picture903882.
context_page_description: Chapel-en-le-Frith is a town and civil parish in Derbyshire, England.
  Dubbed the "Capital of the Peak", as parts of the parish lie within the Peak District National Park, it was established by the Normans in the 12th century, originally as a hunting lodge within the Forest of High Peak. This led to the French-derived name Chapel-en-le-Frith. The population at the 2011 census was 8,635.
context_section_description: The first chapel in the town (now the Church of St. Thomas Becket) was originally built by the Normans but was replaced with a larger building a hundred years later. It stands at the highest point in the town proper. The current building is now almost entirely of 18th-century construction above a crypt of 1225. Buried in the churchyard are soldiers of the Scottish army of the Duke of Hamilton who marched south in support of Charles I in 1648. After their defeat at Preston, they were marched to Chapel and imprisoned in the church for sixteen days in such squalid conditions that forty died; a further ten died when they were marched towards Cheshire. The Eccles Pike Cross stands in the churchyard, having been moved here from Ollerenshaw Farm in 1925. It is believed to be Anglo-Saxon and is covered in very worn carvings.
caption: Church of Thomas Becket
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