Description

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ8645 HARTSHILL ROAD
613-1/9/132 (North East side)
Church of Our Lady and St Peter in
Chains and attached Presbytery

II

Roman Catholic Church. 1857. By Charles Hansom. Chancel
1884-5, by A.E. Purdie. Yellow brick with red brick bands and
Welsh slate roof and composite tile. Early Decorated style,
with nave and aisles, and chancel. 2-storeyed porch in SW
corner of S aisle, 4-light Decorated west window over blank
arcading. South aisle of 5 bays with 3-light Decorated windows
and clerestory over. Below the church to the east, the
presbytery adjoins. INTERIOR richly decorated with western
gallery carried on clustered shafts and open-work tracery
between. Nave of 4 bays with additional narrow western bay.
Cylindrical shafts with foliate capitals. Stilted trusses
carried on clustered shafts sprung from corbels. Windowless N
aisle and high chancel arch with rood and flanking statues
under crocketed canopies. Altar with reredos with statues of
saints in niches. Painted panelled ceiling. Stained glass in
east window. N chancel arcade and stained glass in high S
chancel windows. Font with richly carved octagonal panels and
wood canopy. Painted oak panels with stations of the cross.
Attached presbytery of 1857 in similar style with composite
tile roof, gables and truncated stacks.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: P.262).

Listing NGR: SJ8738345664

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke-on-Trent at Wikipedia
• Our Lady of the Angels and St Peter in Chains Church, Stoke-on-Trent official website
• Wikidata Q22087111

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Recommended Books

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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)