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Latitude: 53.4984 / 53°29'54"N
Longitude: -2.5377 / 2°32'15"W
OS Eastings: 364428
OS Northings: 400327
OS Grid: SD644003
Mapcode National: GBR BWQZ.DM
Mapcode Global: WH985.ZBRC
Plus Code: 9C5VFFX6+9W
Entry Name: Church of St Peter
Listing Date: 27 July 1987
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1068481
English Heritage Legacy ID: 213496
ID on this website: 101068481
Location: St Peter's Church of England Church, Firs Lane, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN7
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Leigh West
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Atherton
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Westleigh St Peter
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival
LEIGH
1480/1/28 FIRS LANE
27-JUL-1987 Westleigh
(North side)
Church of St Peter
II*
Church. 1880-1. By Paley and Austin. Brick with red sandstone dressings and slate roof. Nave and chancel separated by a central tower. Aisle and vestry on north side only; porch on south. 3-bay nave and 2-bay chancel with low weathered buttresses, continuous sill band and 2-light flat- headed windows, some paired, with Decorated tracery and brick hoodmoulds. Gabled porch with statue niche above arched doorway. Coped gables. Bold tower with pyramidal roof has heavy weathered buttresses, a 3-light transomed window, flat-headed belfry openings and an ashlar frieze below the parapet. 4 and 5-light transomed east and west windows. Lean-to aisle roof but no clerestory lights.
INTERIOR: circular columns with moulded capitals and bases support moulded brick arches in the north arcade. Heavily moulded brick responds support the tower arches and a ribbed quadripartite crossing vault. King-post roof trusses with curved wind braces to nave and hammer-beam roof trusses to chancel. Alabaster pulpit said to have come from Military Chapel of Manchester Cathedral. Stone font and reredos. Timber fittings. Stained glass.
One of Paley and Austin's more radical and consequently impressive designs.
Listing NGR: SD6442800327
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