CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1221919
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE VILLAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1221919
Date first listed:: 14-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE VILLAGE

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, THE VILLAGE

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

District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Prestbury
National Grid Reference:: SJ 90064 76931

Details

SJ 97 NW PRESTBURY C.P. THE VILLAGE (East Side)

6/218 Church of St.Peter

14/4/1967

GV I

Church: early-mid C13, south aisle early C14, tower and porch c.1480. C17 alterations and restoration 1879-85 by Sir G G and J O Scott. Ashlar buff and pink sandstone. Kerridge stone-slate roof. 6-bay nave and aisles, 3-bay chancel, west tower and south porch. South porch has diagonal buttresses and crocketted pinnacles on the gable. South aisle has a 2-light window with Y-tracery and C17 3-light stone mullion windows. Clerestorey has 2-light windows with trefoil cusped heads. North aisle of the restoration. Sanctus bellcote on the ridge 5-light east window of the chancel has tiers of lights with cusped heads. 4-stage tower has clasping square buttresses. West door has label mould on carved heads. 3-light west window breaks a bond of interlacing. Clock in 3rd stage and 2-light louvred bell openings above. Another band of interlacing below embattled parapet with crocketted pinnacles. Interior: Arcade of 6 bays to north aisle of alternate circular and octagonal pillars, to south aisle are quatrefoil pillars, one with a stiff-leaf capital. Paintings of 1719 in the spandrels represent the apostles and tribes of Israel. Nave roof truss have arch braced tiebeams with 4 diagonal struts and a collar with 2 diagonal struts. Aisles have post-restoration Victorian glass and Legh Chantry Chapel an oak classical screen dated 1744 and memorial to Charles Legh of an urn in front of an obelisk by Joseph Turner dated 1781. Chancel arch on engaged half octagonal columns and contains a fine neo-classical screen of 1787. Chancel has reset tympanum of C12 date with interlaced trellis decoration. Jacobean pulpit with arcaded panels dated 1607. C14 font with a plain circular bowl and carved head bosses on a quatrefoil pillar (very similar to example at Nether Alderley) with Jacobean font cover. Jacobean tower screen with open pierced arcade and later turned baluster rail above. (Pevsner and Hubbard). H.W.Rogers, Prestbury and its Ancient Church, Macclesfield.

Listing NGR: SJ9006276933

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 413837
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
Rogers, H W, Prestbury and its Ancient Church

Legal

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