St Alkmund's Church stood in a Georgian square between Bridgegate and Queen Street in Derby. Churches on the site dated back to the ninth century. Henry Isaac Stevens designed the Gothic church in ashlar stone, with a foundation stone laid on May 6, 1844. It cost £7,700, and the Bishop of Lichfield opened it on September 15, 1846.
Its 216-foot spire was supported by flying buttresses. The spire drew objections from Derby's Catholic community, who faced it from St Mary's Church, and the Anglican church was mockingly called The Church of the Holy Spite. The painter Joseph Wright was reburied in the churchyard in 1846.
After rot was found in the steeple in the mid-1950s, its top 20 feet were removed. A traffic scheme required the site, and the church was demolished in 1968. The site is now part of the inner ring road.
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