Description

SJ 75 NW FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE HUNGERFORD ROAD

2/53 Church of St.Peter

II

Parish Church, 1914-23, by J Brooke & C E Elcock. Red sandstone
ashlar with green slate roof, 3-bay nave. Side gables with leaded
light windows, in Perpendicular style, interspersed with lancets with
stained glass. Hood moulds over windows and inter-window reducing
buttresses. Twin doors in west nave entrance, into baptistery, of
double multi-panelled doors under gothic arches which die into splayed
reveals, formed by clasping buttresses simple bevelled cornice
supports eaves gutter. Gable copings and twin bell cote with cross
finial.
Interior: Short arcade of two arches, forming narrow side aisles,
leads from baptistery into a nave of three large arches which die into
the piers, and wider side aisles. The 2 bay chancel is flanked north
by the organ chamber and south by the vestry. Carved oak reredos with
"Last Supper" motif, projecting cornice and linenfold panelling.
One-level sedilia, choir stalls within chancel. Carved oak pulpit.
Plastered walls. Polished hardwood barrel ceilings with shaped ribs
off stone corbels.

Listing NGR: SJ7109155757

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Peter's Church, Crewe at Wikipedia
• St Peter's Church, Crewe official website
• Wikidata Q7595231

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)