Church of St Peter

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LOUGHBOROUGH
STORER ROAD
CHURCH OF ST PETER

13-FEB-07

GV
II

Church. 1910-1912. By WS Weatherley of London and GH Barrowcliff of Barrowcliff and Allcock, Loughborough. Lady Chapel 1958 by Albert Herbert of Leicester. Local Mountsorrel granite rubble with stone dressings and plain tile roof with stone coped gables with kneelers and finials. Gothic style with buttresses with set-offs. Plan of nave and chancel in one with north Lady Chapel and south organ chamber and vestry. Narrow passage aisles and north and south porches. Chancel has seven-light east window with Decorated tracery and two-light windows to north and south. Lady Chapel has three-light windows. Organ chamber to south has two-light window and ashlar gabled bell-cote to side over vestry which has flat-arched windows and curving parapet. Nave is of five bays and has four three-light clerestory windows either side over the aisles which have narrow lancets. North and south porches are similar and have moulded arches and double doors within with elaborate metal decoration. West end has seven-light west window with fine Decorated tracery.

INTERIOR.
Walls of buff coloured rendered plaster with Ancaster stone dressings. East window has fine stained glass. Wooden reredos with carved and panelled altar canopy and riddle posts with angel finials, both designed by Weatherley. Elaborate sedilia and piscine in south wall. Carved choir stalls and communion rails. Organ of 1913 has panelled and carved case. Panelled and boarded chancel roof. Pulpit in carved wood on stone base. Nave arcades of moulded arches dying into hexagonal piers with shafts rising to panelled and boarded nave roof. Aisle roofs similar. Aisle lancets are filled with stained glass of 1920's and 30's. Unusual font of beaten copper and iron. A First World War memorial on the west wall was designed by Weatherley and made by Robinsons, Marsham St., London. The memorial consists of a triptych, the middle panel lists the names of the Fallen, with St. George depicted above. The inner sides of the doors have panels depicting St. Michael and the recording Angel.

HISTORY:
This church replaced the adjacent earlier mission church which had been built in 1889 and extended 1892 to serve a new community. This followed the development of several streets of housing principally for those employed by a large supplier of greenhouses and agricultural and other machinery, Messenger and Co.


SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE
This is a carefully designed church which is built of the unusual purple granite of nearby Mountsorrel. The imposing line of the nave and chancel in one is augmented by the aisles, Lady Chapel and vestry. The interior is lofty and spacious with the nave arcades and passage aisles adding to the grandeur of the building. The good quality contemporary fittings survive together with stained glass of the first half of the C20 and the whole church is remarkably intact.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.

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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38175
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/197903

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