Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191066
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1191066
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alton
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 07361 42342
Details
ALTON C.P. HIGH STREET (North-west side) SK 0642-0742 13/27 3/1/67 Church of St. Peter GV II*
Parish Church. C12 core with C13 and C18 additions, restored and enlarged 1831 and extended 1884-5 by J.R. Naylor. Mainly C19 ashlar with edged herringbone tooling and C13 coursed and squared sandstone blocks; slate and plain tile roofs with coped verges. West tower, with angle buttresses, 5-bay nave and aisles, single-bay chancel, south vestry. West tower: C13 with later alterations; 3 stages with crenellated parapets; pointed west door of 2 main roll and fillet moulded orders springing from cylindrical shafts with palmette capitals and water holding bases; second stage has a late C14 pointed west window of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights with hood mould terminating in heads, segmental pointed belfry openings of 3 trefoil-headed lights with Perpendicular tracery over; gargoyles to north and south. North aisle: pointed windows. South aisle: 1830. Pointed windows with Y-tracery and returned hood moulds, blind lancet with returned hood mould over a Tudor arch doorway with roll and hollow mouldings and hood mould terminating in square blocks; coved eaves and crenellated parapet. Chancel: 1884-5; north window of 3 lights with cinquefoiled heads under a segmental arch, pointed east window of 3 cinquefoil-headed lights with Perpendicular tracery and a returned hood mould. Vestry: south window of 3 lights with cinquefoiled heads under a segmental arch. Interior: C12 north arcade, restored, cylindrical columns, square abaci and double chamfered semi-circular arches; south arcade c. 1830, stilted round arches springing from tall cyldrical columns with octagonal abaci to the capitals. C19 wide 4-centred chancel arch springing from engaged cylindrical columns with moulded capitals and bases, outer roll and fillet moulding; tall pointed tower arch with 2 massive wave-moulded orders; nave has a plaster ceiling, north aisle has a plaster ceiling with beams, one dated "G. W. 1743". Fittings: font probably C15 but recut. octagonal with panelled and traceried sides; late C19 wooden pulpit, semi-octagonal, heavily carved; painting of the interior of the church of c. 1830 before the restoration and enlargement; plaque commemorating restoration and enlargement of church in 1831. Monuments: Bill family memorial of 1782, marble wall plaque. Wall painting: above the north arcade remnants of a late C14 painting depicting the story of the Three Quick and the Three Dead. B.O.E. p. 55.
Listing NGR: SK0736142342
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275023
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 55
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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