CHURCH OF ST PETER
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1030939
Date first listed: 18-Jun-1959
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Telford and Wrekin (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Wrockwardine
National Grid Reference: SJ 62458 12051
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
WROCKWARDINE WROCKWARDINE
1.
5362 Church of St Peter
SJ 6212 3/658 18.6.59
I GV
2.
Mainly late C12 to early C13. Large sandstone church with tiled roofs. Cruciform
plan with nave, chancel, north and south transepts, crossing tower and chapels on
north and south sides of chancel.
Nave has C19 restored Decorated style windows, the west window with reticulated
tracery. Chancel has reticulated traceried 3-light east window and round-headed
lancel in south wall.
North and south transepts have 3-light perpendicular windows and south doorway of
south transept has round arch and thick continuous quarter-round mouldings. The
north doorway of north transept has round arch and one order of shafts though the
shafts are missing the trumpet and waterleaf capitals remain.
North chapel has decorated 3-light east window. Small perpendicular south chapel.
Crossing tower of C12 with C14 upper part. It has large buttresses with set-offs
on south-west and north-west corners and a circular turret on the north-west corner
with ogee cap, battlements and pyramidal tiled roof. Lancets in the tower stage
and Decorated 2-light bell-openings above.
Interior: Massive crossing piers with narrow fluting to the capitals. C19 roofs.
Modern font. Jacobean pulpit. Communion rail with balusters. Stained glass by
O'Connar 1861 and by Kempe 1887 and 1902. Memorial window of 1906 by Mary Newill.
Monument to William Chudde 1765 - large Rococo tablet.
Listing NGR: SJ6246312051
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 362515
Legacy System: LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing