Roman Catholic Church of St Peter

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GLOUCESTER

SO8318NE LONDON ROAD 844-1/9/189 (North side) 12/03/73 Roman Catholic Church of St Peter

GV II*

Roman Catholic church. 1860-8. By Robert Gilbert Blount, on site of earlier chapel, for the parish priest, Canon Calderbank. Dressed stone in courses with ashlar details, slate roof. Decorated Gothic Style. Church not orientated, the ritual east end to the north; nave with aisles, chancel with side chapels; a tall tower and spire at the south-east corner with entrance lobby through the base of the tower. EXTERIOR: plinth with moulded offsets to all parts of the church, at the west end the tower of five stages has angle buttresses with offsets at each stage, doorway to lobby on the west side of the bottom stage has richly moulded jambs and arch, in the second stage a pair of lancet windows in the west and north faces with a tracery trefoil in the head of each window, between the windows on both faces an elaborately carved corbel supports a shaft with a foliated capital which in the third stage forms the base of a niche with a nodding ogee-arched head below a crocketed gablet; a clock face in the forth stage on the west side in a moulded stone frame; the upper stage is an open arcaded belfry with a pair of arched openings on each side, the moulded arches are supported on circular columns with foliated capitals, above the crowning corbel table a broach spire with two-light lucarnes in each cardinal face of the spire. Gabled front to the nave with a buttress with offsets at the south-west corner, three lancet windows with hoodmoulds above which are two canopied niches containing the statues of saints supported on corbels carved with the busts of angels, above a string course the gable has a large rose window with foiled geometrical tracery and a vesica light in the apex. Gabled end to the south aisle with a two light traceried window. The chancel has gablets above the clerestory windows. INTERIOR: four-bay nave arcades with clerestory windows placed above the piers, timber arch braced roof, the gallery at the west end is supported on a three-bay arcade with marble columns on stone bases and has a parapet pierced with quatrefoils; chancel arch is supported on short marble shafts set on carved corbels; three-bay chancel, the arcades with marble columns and boldly carved and gilded foliage capitals, panelled timber vault with cross vaults to the three-light clerestory windows; south chapel has a timber double pitched

panelled ceiling and the north chapel a similar segmental ceiling. FITTINGS: include an elaborately carved and arcaded pulpit and richly carved and painted reredos at the east end of the chancel. Lady Chapel and Sanctuary painting by Clayton and Bell, later modified by Linthont of Bruges in 1979. STAINED GLASS: by Clayton and Bell. HISTORY: the building of the church was funded by subscriptions from the parishioners with a gift of 1,000 from Frances Canning. A distinctive composition in Gothic Revival style, one of the most notable of Blount's commissions and dating from the middle part of his career. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 243).





Listing NGR: SO8351218781

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 243

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