Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, WINDMILL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290477
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, WINDMILL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290477
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, WINDMILL STREET
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 ST PETER, WINDMILL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Macclesfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 92233 72940
Details
MACCLESFIELD
SJ97SW WINDMILL STREET
886-1/4/214 (North side)
Church of St Peter
II
Parish church. 1849. C&J Trubshaw. Roughly coursed and squared
rubble with scallop tiled roof. SW tower, nave with 2 lean-to
aisles and dormered clerestorey, chancel. Early English style.
EXTERIOR: W Door in base of tower, and SW doors in steep moulded.
Paired windows over, clock and paired bell chamber
lights in upper stage. Embattled parapet with angle pinnacles.
Spire planned but never built. Aisles divided into 5 bays (4
to south) by buttresses, each with lancet window. 3 steep
gabled dormers with lancet lights to roof. Vestry to NE.
Stepped triple lancet window to chancel.
INTERIOR: nave of 5 bays with stiffleaf capitals to
cylindrical piers. Western gallery with trefoiled traceried
panels and cast-iron rail. Arched braced roof with high set
collars carrying king posts. Patterned stained glass.
FITTINGS: font has blind trefoiled arcading to bowl carried on
clustered shafts. Elaborate woodwork lectern.
Listing NGR: SJ9223372940
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391125
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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