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STAVELEY WOODTHORPE ROAD SK 47 SE Woodthorpe Church of St Peter 827-0/5/10000 II

Church. 1849. Patron: The Duke of Devonshire. Coursed, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; steeply-pitched graduated slate roof. 3 bay nave with small semi-octagonal chancel and west bellcote. Early English Gothic Revival style. Cusped lancets with hoodmoulds; offset buttresses to each angle, between the windows and flanking the west entrance. Single door beneath double- chamfered arch with hoodmould; 2-light window above. Gablet kneelers and overlapped gable copings. Buttressed and gabled bellcote; rolled lead ridge and east gable cross. Chancel has 3 windows as nave and hipped roof. Interior: original benches and fitments; octagonal stone font at east end; 2 figurative memorial windows in south side. Chancel has encaustic tilework below coloured-glass windows with heraldic devices. Built as a Chapel of Ease at a cost of £1700. A chapel has existed here since 1632, its bell dated 1636 hangs in the west bellcote.

Listing NGR: SK4512174554

External Links

• Wikidata Q26614651

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)