Church Of Saint Peter

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SD 91 SW ROCHDALE SAINT PETER'S STREET (north side) 7/99 Church of Saint - Peter - II

Church. 1868-71. By J.M. and H. Taylor. Polygonal rubble with brick dressings and slate roofs. Nave with clerestory and aisles has a leanto roofed west porch which is flanked to the north by a baptistery and south by a porch which was intended to form the base of a tower, never completed. The semi-octagonal chancel has a north vestry and south organ chamber. Stone plinth, brick banding and overhanging eaves.

4-bay nave and aisles with quatrefoil clerestory windows, lancet aisle windows and weathered buttresses. The south- west porch has heavy diagonal buttresses, pointed-arched door opening and 2 circular lights. The organ chamber is roofed at right angles to the chancel and has a rose window in the gable surrounded by surface grid decoration in brick.

The chancel has coupled lancets to each face with traceried heads. The general effect is one of "constructional polychromy" created by the use of bricks and stone.

Interior: chamfered-arch nave arcade with circular columns, some having floral capitals, some moulded. Carved roundels in spandrels. Hammer-beam roof trusses. Stained glass by F Comere and J Capronnier dated variously from 1889 to 1908.

The nave and aisles have been divided in 1984 by a screen at the half way point.

Listing NGR: SD9065212750

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/1091 Ioe Records Taken By Pamela Jackson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Ms Pamela Jackson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project