Description

HINDLEY ATHERTON ROAD
SD 60 SW
(west side)
10/76 Church of
- St. Peter
- II
Church. 1866. By E. G. Paley. Rock-faced stone with ashlar
dressings and slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to
roofs, south west vestry, chancel and north east tower and
spire (ritual west is actual north). 5-bay nave has cornice
to clerestory and aisles; aisles have 2-light windows with
Geometrical tracery and hood moulds with head stops; gabled
buttresses have animal corbels. Clerestory has paired 2-
light windows. North and south gabled porches have angle
buttresses, arches with ball-flower on quatrefoil responds
with foliated capitals. West end has gabled buttresses
flanking 4-light window with shafts and small light with
shafts over, headstops to hood moulds; 2-light aisle west
windows. Tower has diagonal buttresses with blind arches to
angled top projections, 3-light north window, 2nd stage
trefoil-headed light with shafts on sill course. Bell stage
has sill and impost courses and paired 2-light louvred bell
openings with clock faces over. Top cornice with gargoyles
and broach spire with 2 tiers of lucarnes, the lower ones of
2 lights. East stair turret, the upper part canted; trefoil-
headed entrance. Chancel has gabled buttresses flanking 3-
light east window. Enriched cornice and 2-light trefoil-
headed south window. Vestry is later, gabled to east and
west. Interior has arcades on round columns with crocket
capitals; hood moulds with head stops. Corbelled detached
shafts support waggon roof. 2 wrought iron chandeliers
Organ, 1873, in original case at west end, 2 parts flanking
vestry, stalls to front and top cresting. Round font on
quatrefoil column with roundels to bowl. Chancel arch on
triple-shafted responds, pulpit to south with arcading.
Chancel has arch-braced scissor roof and simple panelling
and reredos. Arch to vestry to north. East window has good
stained glass dated 1870; south aisle has unusual pictorial
style window dated 1881 by D. Morette. Good stone-carved
details.

Listing NGR: SD6157504242

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Peter's Church, Hindley at Wikipedia
• St Peter's Church, Hindley official website
• Wikidata Q7595251

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