Description

NOTTINGHAM

SK54SE HARTLEY ROAD, Radford 646-1/4/245 (North West side) 11/08/52 Church of St Peter

GV II

Church. 1812. By Henry Moses Wood of Nottingham. Chancel and side chapel dated 1871. Vestry late C19 with mid C20 addition. Ashlar with slate roofs. C20 addition yellow brick with stone facing. PLAN: chancel, organ chamber and vestry, aisleless nave, west tower. EXTERIOR: chancel and chapel, Gothic Revival style, has plinth, buttresses, coped gables with crosses, and tile crests. East end has a 5-light window with geometrical tracery, north and south sides have single pointed arched windows, all with hood moulds. Organ chamber, to south, has a round-arched dated panel, with a round window above. Vestry, to north, gabled, with flat roofed C20 addition. Nave, Gothick style, 6 bays, has pointed arched openings with hood moulds, and crenellated parapet. To south, 4 windows with Y tracery, flanked to west by a matching doorway and to east by a traceried window with a priest's door below it. North side has 6 windows with Y tracery, and west end has 2 similar windows, blank. Square west tower, 3 stages, has diagonal buttresses and crenellated parapet. Pointed arched west door. Above, a traceried round window on 3 sides. Bell stage has a pointed arched opening on each side with Y tracery. In the north-west angle, a single cell square projection with hipped roof. INTERIOR: rendered. Chancel has heavily moulded arch with hood mould and triple marble shafts. Flanking the arch, segmental pointed openings with altar to south and door to north. Pointed arched barrel vault with wooden ribs. Windows have C19 stained glass. Nave has moulded cornice and flat ceiling, pointed arched doors and internal porch. C19 gallery removed and C20 screen with stained glass panels inserted at west end. Fittings mainly late C19 including octagonal ashlar font and pulpit. Wooden reredos, 1927. Memorials include Gothic marble tablet, 1840, and traceried panelled wooden war memorial, c1918. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 254-255).

Listing NGR: SK5522940632

External Links

• St. Peter's Church, Radford at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7591330

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)