Description

SJ 77 NW TABLEY INFERIOR C.P. (Off) CHESTER ROAD

6/65 CHURCH OF ST PETER at Tabley
House (formerly listed as
Private Chapel at Tabley House)

5.3.59

G.V. I

Chapel. 1675-9 with early C18 tower, moved to present site in 1927-29
having been previously adjacent to the Old Hall. Red Flemish bond
brick with stone dressings and stone slate roof. 3-bay nave with
one-bay ante-chapel with gallery over. Tower to west end. North
front: 4 bays, the 3 to left having 3 stone dressed mullioned and
transomed lights with Tudor heads and hood moulds. Buttresses to left
and between windows with off sets. Right hand bay has arched doorway
with tablet over with inscription and winged angle head above that
with pediment to top. Stone quoins to corners and ball finials above
stone kneelers, at half way points and at apexes of shaped gables.
5-light pointed eastern window. The south front repeats the
arrangements for the north front save that a passageway (q.v.) was
added in 1927-9 linking the chapel to the house. West front: 2
lateral upper arched windows with stone surrounds with shaped gable
above. Superimposed tower of c1714 of three stages, the lower one
being wider and having stone quoins and a 2-light Tudor window with
hood mould. Parapet with stone balusters and ball finials. Recessed
clock stage above with diamond-shaped clock faces to three sides.
Belfry stage above this with 2-light louvred Tudor openings with stone
surrounds. Parapet above with stone balusters and ball finials.
Interior: coved ceiling, panelling in Jacobean style to lower walls
divided by Ionic pilasters with swags across capitals and entablature
with winged angles heads to the frieze. Reading desk to south east
with ball finials and two large gilded winged angels heads to front.
Octagonal pulpit with arched panels, panelled sounding board and
spiral balusters. Communion rail with similar spiral' balusters.
Stall fronts have bolection moulded panels. Stalls arranged down each
side. Western screen with central double doors in arched doorcase
with Ionic ½-columns to either side with panelled plinths. Winged
angels heads to frieze. Broken pediment over with split pea-pods to
angles. Sculpture of St Peter holding keys in centre of pediment.
Some panels of Flemish stained glass and one window of 1895 by Morris
and Co. designed by Burne-Jones depicting the patron saints of the 2nd
Lord de Tabley's children.

Listing NGR: SJ7249277769

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Peter's Church, Tabley at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7595295

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)