Description

SE32SE STANLEY ABERFORD ROAD
(west side)

4/50 Church of St. Peter
11 July 1961

- II

Church. 1821-4 by Peter Atkinson Junior, rebuilt 1911-13 (apart from the
west end) by W. D. Carbe of London. Ashlar. Welsh slate roof. Twin west
towers, 6 bay nave with lean-to 6-bay aisles, 2-bay chancel with later
vestry to south. The broad west front is flanked by 2 tall 4-stage octagonal
towers. The 3rd stages have short lancets and the upper stages form an open
belfry with Perpendicular openings, gargoyles, pierced parapets and
pinnacles. Central arched door with flanking 3-light windows. Above is a
large 5-light window with Perpendicular panel tracery, flanked by tall, very
slender, 2-light windows. Nave: buttressed aisles, each bay gabled and
with large 3-light window with Decorated tracery of different designs in the
heads; 2-light square-headed clerestory windows; the +-bays at the west end,
north and south, have very slender 2-light windows and rise above the aisles
as short square towers. Tall 2-light chancel windows. The east end, flanked
by broad angle buttresses which support a low arch. Two intermediate
buttresses frame and separate a central 3-light window and 2 lower 2-light
windows with Decorated tracery. Below is a passage leading to the crypt.
Interior: tall nave with 6-bay arcade on slender filleted columns which rise
through the clerestory and carry the wall posts of the arched-braced roof
trusses. The south chapel has been separated to form a smaller chapel.
Aisle roofs have wooden transverse vaulting. Wooden, vaulted, chancel roof
with well-carved frieze. Carved stone font with excellent tall oak cover of
1916 carved with pierced panels and Decorated tracery with a crocketed spire.
Excellent choir stalls with misericords whose superb carvings depict "The
Creation", 1924 by H. P. Jackson of Northowram.
N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England, 1967.
K. Taylor. Wakefield District Heritage, 1975
(Wakefield EAHY Committee).

Listing NGR: SE3496324246

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Peter's Church at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26428870

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Recommended Books

• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)