South Normanton Windmill Tower west of St Michael's Church South Normanton · Derbyshire · England

Windmill Tower to West of St Michael's Church stands on Fordbridge Lane at South Normanton. The structure is also identified in specialist mill records as Fordbridge Lane Mill. It was a tower corn mill, built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.

The tower is circular in plan and built of coursed tapering squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. It rises through four stages. The south side contains a doorway with a large plain lintel and plank door, while window openings survive to the first, second, third, and fourth stages on the east and west sides. Iron bands encircle the structure at each floor level, and the remains of an eaves band survive at the top. At the time of listing, the tower was roofless and the interior was gutted except for the remains of three floors.

After its working life as a corn mill, the tower was adapted for other use. It spent a period with a water tank on top, and iron bands were added during that phase. Later photographs record the structure before conversion and after adaptation as Fordbridge Mill. The tower was listed at Grade II on 9 December 1987 under the official name Windmill Tower to West of St Michael's Church. Its subsequent house conversion retained the windmill tower as a distinctive element of the South Normanton streetscape.