Church of St Peter

Church of St Peter, Walsall Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038832
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:: Church of St Peter, Walsall Road

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038832
Date first listed:: 15-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St Peter, Walsall Road

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St Peter, Walsall Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Shenstone
National Grid Reference:: SK 09216 00377

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 19 June 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards

SK 00 SE 8/89

SHENSTONE C.P. WALLSALL ROAD (south side) Church of St Peter

II

Chapel of ease. 1873-74 by G.E Street for Hon.Edward Swynfen Parker-Jervis of Little Aston Hall (q.v.). Red sandstone ashlar; tiled roofs with verge parapets. Decidedly picturesque Early English style. Nave, chancel, north aisle and vestry, north-west steeple.

Steeple: three stages, banded and with angle buttresses of three stages, gabletted head. Bell chamber has pointed labelled arcading of three bays to each side, blind except to centres which have louvred openings, corbelled eaves to broach spire which has two tiers of diminishing lucarnes. Centre stage has lancets set over pointed, moulded west door with engaged columns under the imposts; octagonal stair tower is clasped to south west angle, rising to the centre stage and assisting the composition with the nave: of three bays exposed to the south with pointed two-light Y-tracery windows, continuous string below cill level, buttress to east and small engaged octagonal projection to south west, echoing the stair tower. The west gable has a pointed five-light stepped lancet window set over the single storey flat roofed choir vestry projection built on in 1955.

north aisle: pent (of flatter pitch) and of three bays similar to the south side of the nave, the aisle is clasped in place by the taller, projecting, gabled vestry: the north face has a lancet to the right, the string stepped up to a trefoil-headed, boarded door, the west gable (looking over the aisle) has a quatrefoil light to the apex; to the east a further, lower additional bay fills in the return angle to the chancel, with a quatrefoil light to the south and a triple-light lancet to the east gable flush but lower than the chancel slightly lower than, but flush with the nave; three bays of lancets exposed to the north with a stepped string and angle buttresses; triple lancet pointed east window larger than on the smaller adjacent gable.

Interior: three bay north arcade, pointed on round columns, pointed chancel arch and strong segmental relieving arches to north aisle windows. Pointed arches to north and east of tower form a continuation of the arcade and aisle. Nave roof with arch braced collar trusses supporting a wind braced single purlin; the chancel roof has trussed rafters in a barrel vault; reredos carving by Earp.

Pulpit: stone, octagonal on clustered marble columns, inset panels to faces finished in marble mosaic. Font: similar to pulpit. Elaborate brass choir rails.

Listing NGR: SK0921600377

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Legacy System number:: 272704
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 195-196

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.