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Latitude: 53.4839 / 53°29'2"N
Longitude: -2.1059 / 2°6'21"W
OS Eastings: 393067
OS Northings: 398585
OS Grid: SJ930985
Mapcode National: GBR FXQ4.WT
Mapcode Global: WHB9J.MPDH
Plus Code: 9C5VFVMV+HJ
Entry Name: Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 12 January 1967
Last Amended: 14 July 1987
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1067994
English Heritage Legacy ID: 212664
ID on this website: 101067994
Location: St Peter's Church, Guide Bridge, Tameside, Greater Manchester, OL7
County: Tameside
Electoral Ward/Division: St Peter's
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Ashton-under-Lyne
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Ashton-under-Lyne The Good Shepherd
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE MANCHESTER ROAD
SJ 99 NW (south side)
4/16 Church of
12/01/67 St. Peter
G.V. II*
Church. 1821-24. By F. Goodwin for the Church Commissioners.
Ashlar with slate roof. 3-sided gallery plan with west tower
and a small canted vestry taking the form of a chancel.
Gothic revival. 7-bay nave with weathered plinth and coped
parapet. Each bay has a 3-light transomed window with
Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould. The fine tracery is pre-
fabricated in cast iron which is painted to imitate stone.
Weathered buttresses (diagonal at corners) have crocketed
pinnacles. The east end has a rose window above the vestry
and bold octagonal pinnacled piers define the nave and
'aisles'(although there are not actually any aisles).
Impressive 3-stage tower with set-back buttresses which turn
to octagonal corner piers at the upper stages and are topped
by pinnacles, door in first stage, 3-light west window,
clock faces below gablets, tall paired lancet belfry
openings and elaborate arcaded parapet.
IINTERIOR: quatrefoil cast-iron columns support the gallery
which has an arcaded parapet and has been partitioned off
beneath the west end in C20. Gallery benches mostly survive.
Tall pannelled dado to side walls beneath gallery. Panelled
east wall, the panelling apparently coming from Manchester
Cathedral. Panelled ceiling which turns to a ribbed vault
above the gallery. Stone font. Organ has elaborate case.
Stained glass to many windows, east window by Evans of
Shrewsbury.
A particularly imposing and elaborate example of a Commissioner's
Church.
Listing NGR: SJ9306798585
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