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Coordinates: 53°1512N 2°0704W / 53.2534°N 2.1179°W / 53.2534; -2.1179
 

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St Peter's Church, Macclesfield
St Peter's Church, Macclesfield, from the southeast
St Peter's Church, Macclesfield is located in Cheshire
St Peter's Church, Macclesfield

St Peter's Church, Macclesfield

Location in Cheshire

53°15′12N 2°07′04W / 53.2534°N 2.1179°W / 53.2534; -2.1179
OS grid referenceSJ 922 729
LocationWindmill Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
WebsiteSt Peter, Macclesfield
History
StatusParish church
DedicationSaint Peter
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade II
Designated28 October 1984
Architect(s)Charles and James Trubshaw
Architectural typeChurch
StyleGothic Revival
Completed1849
Specifications
MaterialsStone, tile roofs
Administration
ProvinceYork
DioceseChester
ArchdeaconryMacclesfield
DeaneryMacclesfield
ParishMacclesfield Team Parish
Clergy
Rectorvacant
Laity
Reader(s)Judith Gibson

St Peter's Church is in Windmill Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the deanery of Macclesfield.[1] It forms a team ministry with three other Macclesfield churches: St Michael, All Saints, and St Barnabas.[2] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade IIlisted building.[3] It was a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.[4]

History[edit]

St Peter's was built in 1849, and designed by Charles and James Trubshaw. It was planned to have a spire, but this was never built. A grant of £257 (equivalent to £30,000 in 2023)[5] was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission.[4] The interior was re-ordered in 2005.[6]

Architecture[edit]

Exterior[edit]

The church is constructed in rubble stone with tiled roofs. Its architectural style is Early English. The plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a northeast vestry, and a southwest tower. The tower is in four stages with corner buttresses, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. There are doors on the west and southwest sides, lancet windows in the second stage, circular clock faces in the third stage, and paired louvred bell openings in the top stage. Along the sides of the church the bays are divided by buttresses, each bay containing a lancet window. The clerestory contains gabled dormers. The east window in the chancel is a stepped triple lancet.[3]

Interior[edit]

Inside the church is a west gallery. The nave is divided from the aisles by five-bay arcades carried on circular piers whose capitals are decorated with stiff-leaf carving. The bowl of the font has blind trefoil arcading, and is carried on clustered shafts. The wooden lectern is elaborately carved.[3] The organ was built in 1891 by Young.[7] There is a ring of eight bells, all of which were cast in 1947 by John Taylor &CoofLoughborough.[8]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ St Peter, Macclesfield, Church of England, retrieved 14 March 2012
  • ^ About us and contact, St Michael and All Angels Church, Macclesfield, retrieved 14 March 2012
  • ^ a b c Historic England, "Church of St Peter, Macclesfield (1290477)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 14 March 2012
  • ^ a b Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 331, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4
  • ^ UKRetail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", MeasuringWorth, retrieved 7 May 2024
  • ^ Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 456, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6
  • ^ "NPOR [J00100]", National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 2 July 2020
  • ^ Macclesfield, S Peter, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, retrieved 14 March 2012

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