Description

SE22NE LS27 VICTORIA ROAD
MORLEY (west side, off)

2/62 Church of
St. Peter

GV II

Commissioners' Church. c1829-30 by R. D. Chantrell on land granted by
the Earl of Dartmouth, Lord of the Manor; church re-ordered and chancel
added c1885 by W. Hamstock (Batley). Hammer-dressed sandstone, Welsh
blue-slate roof. West tower, nave, chancel, south transeptal chapel
(houses organ), north vestry. Early English lancet style, chancel in a
mixed Gothic Revival style. 3-stage tower has quoin pilasters, pointed-
arched doorway with roll moulding and steeply-pitched hoodmould with trefoil
in apex. 2nd-stage has lancet window with hoodmould. 3rd-stage has 3-light
belfry opening, the outer lights blind. Tower surmounted by broach spire.
Short lean-to bay to each side with lower roofs than nave have narrow pointed
arched doorways. Nave: plinth. 7 bays of lancet windows with continuous
hoodmould. Gabled transept has angle buttresses and 3-light windows with cusped
lights surmounted by traceried rose. Coped gable with kneelers and finial to
apex. 2-bay chancel under lower roof has angle buttresses. 5-light East window
surmounted by 3 traceried roses. Coped gable with finial. North vestry at
right angles has two (-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with ogee lintels.
Coped gable to right. Tall central ridge stack.

Interior: single vessel relatively plain. Roof has large moulded tie beams
supported by curved brackets, the spandrels pierced by sexfoils. Galleries
removed except west gallery, supported on octagonal cast-iron columns. Wide
4-centred chancel arch springs from short granite colonnettes with foliated
capitals. Chancel has similar arch leading to transept now blocked by organ,
waggon roof. Finely carved chancel screen c1900 with colonnettes supporting
arcade surmounted by triangular finialed pediments pierced by open trefoils.
Panelled reredos. Pitch-pine pews and choir-stalls with carved poppy-heads
and arcades of Early English design. 7-sided carved stone pulpit has Early
English arcades and foliated frieze. Octagonal-shafted, Caen stone font.

Listing NGR: SE2643828593

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542760

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