Description

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SK 3547
3/2

CHURCH LANE (North Side)
Parish Church of St Peter

3.2.66.

GV
II

Church of England. 1824. Architect Mathew Habershon. (Designs exhibited at Royal Academy of 1824). Restored 1884. Of local grit stone from Hunger Hill Quarry. West tower , nave sanctuary and galleries. Commissioners plan now modified by use of part of nave as a chancel. Decorated style. The tall slender west tower has crenellated parapet with quatrefoil band below and angle buttresses rising to polygonal corner turrets. Ground floor forms porch entrance. Facade has five tall two stage windows with buttresses between each pair. Crenellated parapet.

Interior. West, north and south galleries supported on cast iron columns. Gothick arch over sanctuary which contains wall tablets to members of Strutt family.

Monument to George Brettle 1835 by Sir Richard Westmacott.

The church is on the hillside and the tower forms a prominent landmark.

Listing NGR: SK3508147674

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Parish Church of St Peter at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26379824

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)