The card's caption is a little misleading as this isn't a picture of Matlock Bridge; it is an image of Matlock's Parish Church in Old Matlock or Matlock Town. Several postcards of the church from this era describe it as Matlock Bridge.

Arthur Mee wrote that "old houses line the narrow cobbled Stoney Way; on a rocky ridge close by is a church ..., though much rebuilt ; above the church by a green is a 17th-century house which has been an inn^[1]". He was referring to the Wheatsheaf Inn, which is on the left of this picture. One of the entrances into the churchyard is immediately ahead. There is a lychgate in this entranceway today, described by Mee as "handsome"^[1], but this picture was take before it was built.