Description

PLYMOUTH

SX4654NE WYNDHAM SQUARE, Stonehouse 740-1/56/841 Church of St Peter 01/05/75 (Formerly Listed as: WYNDHAM SQUARE, Plymouth Church of St Peter)

GV II

Nonconformist chapel called Eldad built in 1830, licensed as an Anglican church in 1848, small chancel added in 1849-50 by GE Street, the rest rebuilt 1880-82 by G Fellowes Prynne, whose father was the vicar, and in 1906 the tower was added. The church was badly damaged in the Blitz and restored in the 1950s by F Etchells, when the walls leading to the apexes of the roofs were lowered and the walls around the other parts of the church increased in height to form level parapets surrounding replacement flat roofs. Plymouth limestone brought to course and with yellow stone dressings; roofs behind moulded parapets; steep octagonal copper roof to tower. STYLE: Early and mid Gothic. PLAN: nave with clearstorey; lower chancel; N and S aisles; N and S transepts; W tower; SE chapel with apsidal E end; NE vestry and S porch. EXTERIOR: 2-light pointed-arched windows with tracery and hoodmoulds to N and S walls of aisles and 3-light windows to W end of aisles. Chancel has large 5-light window with geometric tracery. Buttressed 2-storey transepts each have 2 bays of triple lancets. Vestry has 3-light mullioned windows. 3-stage angle-buttressed tower has balustraded parapet between crocketed corner pinnacles. There is a parapet cornice and modillion cornice over bell-stage with 3 tall equal louvred lancets with turned shafts and quatrefoil apron. Stage below has 4 narrow slit windows within lancets with turned shafts over 2-light traceried window above large pointed-arched doorway with 4 orders of nook shafts; pair of C20 doors. Gabled S porch has corner buttresses surmounted by octagonal turrets with blind lantern arcades and spires; niche with statue over moulded pointed arched doorway with squat nook shafts. INTERIOR: columns replaced by steel columns encased in pre-cast concrete moulded blocks, supporting ceiling of oak beams. Stations of the Cross by Charles Stapleton. Stained glass by James Paterson. HISTORY: the Reverend George Rundle Prynne was appointed Vicar of the new parish of St Peter's in 1848, and his work (until

his death in 1903) assured the parish a prominent position in the Catholic Revival in the Church of England; the rebuilding to the designs of H Fellowes Prynne, his son, was completed with the building of the tower and spire in 1906. Occupies a prominent position in the city, at centre of square designed by Foulston. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 645; Midgley R: Report on the Church of St Peter: 1995-).

Listing NGR: SX4689354804

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