CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, ATHERTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287248
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, ATHERTON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-03-04
Reference:: IOE01/03284/03
Rights:: © Mr Peter Sargeant. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1287248
Date first listed:: 10-May-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, ATHERTON ROAD

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, ATHERTON ROAD

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

District:: Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 61575 04242

Details

HINDLEY ATHERTON ROAD SD 60 SW (west side) 10/76 Church of - St. Peter - II Church. 1866. By E. G. Paley. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, south west vestry, chancel and north east tower and spire (ritual west is actual north). 5-bay nave has cornice to clerestory and aisles; aisles have 2-light windows with Geometrical tracery and hood moulds with head stops; gabled buttresses have animal corbels. Clerestory has paired 2- light windows. North and south gabled porches have angle buttresses, arches with ball-flower on quatrefoil responds with foliated capitals. West end has gabled buttresses flanking 4-light window with shafts and small light with shafts over, headstops to hood moulds; 2-light aisle west windows. Tower has diagonal buttresses with blind arches to angled top projections, 3-light north window, 2nd stage trefoil-headed light with shafts on sill course. Bell stage has sill and impost courses and paired 2-light louvred bell openings with clock faces over. Top cornice with gargoyles and broach spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes, the lower ones of 2 lights. East stair turret, the upper part canted; trefoil- headed entrance. Chancel has gabled buttresses flanking 3- light east window. Enriched cornice and 2-light trefoil- headed south window. Vestry is later, gabled to east and west. Interior has arcades on round columns with crocket capitals; hood moulds with head stops. Corbelled detached shafts support waggon roof. 2 wrought iron chandeliers Organ, 1873, in original case at west end, 2 parts flanking vestry, stalls to front and top cresting. Round font on quatrefoil column with roundels to bowl. Chancel arch on triple-shafted responds, pulpit to south with arcading. Chancel has arch-braced scissor roof and simple panelling and reredos. Arch to vestry to north. East window has good stained glass dated 1870; south aisle has unusual pictorial style window dated 1881 by D. Morette. Good stone-carved details.

Listing NGR: SD6157504242

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Legacy System number:: 402905
Legacy System:: LBS

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