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Holbrook stands on a hilltop with a Hall dating from 1681 (these days a convalescent home), and other old houses great and small, and a charming outlook on a pastoral countryside.
In a field near the hall, a Roman pottery kiln, where the well-known ‘Derbyshire-Ware’ was made, was discovered and excavated in 1962.
The church, in a pleasant churchyard enriched with flowers, looks out to Horsley’s ancient steeple in a wealth of trees on the facing hill. It was rebuilt in 1841, incorporating part of the private chapel built for the Hall which stands above it, and was enlarged early in the present century.
It has much comtemporary woodwork,and a memorial to Samuel Bradshaw who built the original chapel and died in 1768. A round west window has glass in memory of William Leeke, who was a vicar here and who is buried in the churchyard, his gravestone telling us that he carried the colours of his regiment at Waterloo.
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