Church of Our Lady and St Peter in Chains and Attached Presbytery
CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST PETER IN CHAINS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, HARTSHILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220459
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady and St Peter in Chains and Attached Presbytery
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST PETER IN CHAINS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, HARTSHILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1220459
- Date first listed:
- 15-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady and St Peter in Chains and Attached Presbytery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST PETER IN CHAINS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, HARTSHILL ROAD
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 OUR LADY AND ST PETER IN CHAINS AND ATTACHED PRESBYTERY, HARTSHILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 87383 45664
Details
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SJ8645 HARTSHILL ROAD 613-1/9/132 (North East side) Church of Our Lady and St Peter in Chains and attached Presbytery
II
Roman Catholic Church. 1857. By Charles Hansom. Chancel 1884-5, by A.E. Purdie. Yellow brick with red brick bands and Welsh slate roof and composite tile. Early Decorated style, with nave and aisles, and chancel. 2-storeyed porch in SW corner of S aisle, 4-light Decorated west window over blank arcading. South aisle of 5 bays with 3-light Decorated windows and clerestory over. Below the church to the east, the presbytery adjoins. INTERIOR richly decorated with western gallery carried on clustered shafts and open-work tracery between. Nave of 4 bays with additional narrow western bay. Cylindrical shafts with foliate capitals. Stilted trusses carried on clustered shafts sprung from corbels. Windowless N aisle and high chancel arch with rood and flanking statues under crocketed canopies. Altar with reredos with statues of saints in niches. Painted panelled ceiling. Stained glass in east window. N chancel arcade and stained glass in high S chancel windows. Font with richly carved octagonal panels and wood canopy. Painted oak panels with stations of the cross. Attached presbytery of 1857 in similar style with composite tile roof, gables and truncated stacks. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: P.262).
Listing NGR: SJ8738345664
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384413
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 262
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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