Church of Saint Peter, Rochdale
Description: Church of Saint Peter
Grade: II
Date Listed: 12 February 1985
English Heritage Building ID: 358929
OS Grid Reference: SD9065212750
OS Grid Coordinates: 390652, 412750
Latitude/Longitude: 53.6112, -2.1428
Location: St Peter's Street, Rochdale OL16 5NH
Locality: Rochdale
Local Authority: Rochdale
County: Greater Manchester
Country: England
Postcode: OL16 5NH
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Listing Text
SD 91 SW ROCHDALE SAINT PETER'S
STREET
(north side)
7/99 Church of Saint
- Peter
- II
Church. 1868-71. By J.M. and H. Taylor. Polygonal rubble
with brick dressings and slate roofs. Nave with clerestory
and aisles has a leanto roofed west porch which is flanked
to the north by a baptistery and south by a porch which was
intended to form the base of a tower, never completed. The
semi-octagonal chancel has a north vestry and south organ
chamber. Stone plinth, brick banding and overhanging eaves.
4-bay nave and aisles with quatrefoil clerestory windows,
lancet aisle windows and weathered buttresses. The south-
west porch has heavy diagonal buttresses, pointed-arched
door opening and 2 circular lights. The organ chamber is
roofed at right angles to the chancel and has a rose window
in the gable surrounded by surface grid decoration in brick.
The chancel has coupled lancets to each face with traceried
heads. The general effect is one of "constructional
polychromy" created by the use of bricks and stone.
Interior: chamfered-arch nave arcade with circular columns,
some having floral capitals, some moulded. Carved roundels
in spandrels. Hammer-beam roof trusses. Stained glass by F
Comere and J Capronnier dated variously from 1889 to 1908.
The nave and aisles have been divided in 1984 by a screen at
the half way point.
Listing NGR: SD9065212750
Source: English Heritage
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