Description

SOUTH BANK MIDDLESBROUGH ROAD
NZ 52 SW
north side
3/102 Church of St. Peter
G.V. II

Roman Catholic Church, 1903/05 by Lowther (Hull). Brick with stone
dressings; plain clay tile roofs. Disoriented, terms used are ritual.
Continuous aisled nave and chancel with half-octagonal apse, south porch,
short pent transepts, and north-west tower. Decorated style with
curvilinear tracery and French Gothic style tower. 3-stage tower has angle
buttresses rising to short pyramid-capped turrets. Lower stages have
lancets under hoodmoulds; canted porch in north face. Paired lancet bell
openings with louvres and cusped heads. Clock faces below eaves of
steeply-pitched, sprocketed, hipped roof, with ball-and-spike finials. West
end of nave has similar angle buttresses, flanking boarded double doors,
with scrolled strap hinges, under shouldered heads, in paired pointed
surrounds of 3 moulded orders on nook shafts and foliate capitals. Enriched
hoodmoulds, gargoyles in spandrels and richly-carved tympana. Tall paired
windows with nook shafts, flanking figure of St. Peter in niche with
enriched corbel and hood. Rood in gable. 4-bay north aisle and 5-bay south
aisle; each has hip-roofed canted projecting chapel. Gabled porch has
similar doors and surround. Transepts canted at east ends. Tapered timber
and metal ridge vent, on nave, has cusped-headed openings, ogee-domed roof
and weather vane; louvres missing. INTERIOR: 6-bay arcades have compound
granite shafts and foliate capitals. Round wall shafts, with carved
capitals, between apse windows. Foundation stone dated 1903 on north side
of apse. West gallery, holding organ, over glazed timber screen. Ceiled
hammerbeam roof has cusped curved braces with enriched pendants. Pointed
cross-vaulting in aisles. Stucco stations of cross on aisle walls. Wrought
iron screens in easternmost bays of arcades. Similar communion rails.
Later house and offices, adjoining north side of chancel, are not of special
interest.

Listing NGR: NZ5321020806

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26432445

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)