Former Church of St Peter
FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER, BLOSSOM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1197806
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER, BLOSSOM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1197806
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1974
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER, BLOSSOM STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER CHURCH OF ST PETER, BLOSSOM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 84956 98678
Details
MANCHESTER
SJ8498 BLOSSOM STREET, Ancoats 698-1/17/447 (South side) 03/10/74 Former Church of St Peter
GV II
Church, now disused. 1859-60, by Isaac Holden & Son. Red brick with dressings of white brick, slate roofs. Romanesque style. Nave with apsidal east end, north and south aisles and transepts, north-west tower. Tall square campanile tower with very tall first stage and belfry stage divided by a cornice, short set-back top stage; panelled sides to the 1st stage with Lombard friezes, large round-headed doorway on north side with set-in shafts, keystone and double-doors with ornamental strap hinges, round-headed lancet above doorway and very small lancet near top; round-headed 2-light louvred belfry windows, stylised and polychrome frieze; small round-headed window with flanking lancets to top stage; swept pryramidal roof. Four-bay aisles with sill-band to round-headed windows with imposts linked to raised panels pendent from Lombard frieze; low gabled transepts with stepped tripartite windows in similar style. Arcaded clerestory with coupled windows between blind arches. All windows have white brick heads and most were boarded at time of survey. Interior not inspected but reported (by Pevsner) to have 5 lofty bays with thin cast-iron columns and semi-circular brick arches, "superb roof: segmental plaster vault with slight coffers divided into bays by four elegant cast-iron trusses with enriched spandrels"; bench ends also cast-iron.
Listing NGR: SJ8495698678
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 387937
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
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