Description

The following building shall be added:

STAVELEY WOODTHORPE ROAD
SK 47 SE
Woodthorpe
Church of St Peter
827-0/5/10000
II

Church. 1849. Patron: The Duke of Devonshire. Coursed, squared
sandstone with ashlar dressings; steeply-pitched graduated slate
roof. 3 bay nave with small semi-octagonal chancel and west
bellcote. Early English Gothic Revival style. Cusped lancets with
hoodmoulds; offset buttresses to each angle, between the windows
and flanking the west entrance. Single door beneath double-
chamfered arch with hoodmould; 2-light window above. Gablet
kneelers and overlapped gable copings. Buttressed and gabled
bellcote; rolled lead ridge and east gable cross. Chancel has 3
windows as nave and hipped roof. Interior: original benches and
fitments; octagonal stone font at east end; 2 figurative memorial
windows in south side. Chancel has encaustic tilework below
coloured-glass windows with heraldic devices. Built as a Chapel
of Ease at a cost of £1700. A chapel has existed here since 1632,
its bell dated 1636 hangs in the west bellcote.

Listing NGR: SK4512174554

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614651

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House