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List entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: CHURCH OF ST PETER

List entry Number: 1231569

Location

CHURCH OF ST PETER

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County	District	District Type	Parish
	Cheshire East	Unitary Authority	Swettenham

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 14-Feb-1967

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 406716

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List entry Description

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History

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Details

SWETTENHAM C.P. SWETTENHAM VILLAGE SJ 86 NW

5/48 Church of St Peter

14.2.67

GV II*

Parish Church,on mediaeval site, circa 1717 with alterations in the Romanesque style by J M Derrick 1846 and some Gothic Revival work 1865 (Pevsner). Red brick in Flemish bond, stone and timber framing with plastered panels. Stone slate and Welsh slate roofs. 4 bay nave, 2 bay chancel. The C18 brick west tower has an oak boarded door in a rebated semi-circular arched opening. There is a projecting brick band above the door on which sits a stone dressed semi-circular arched window with responds, keystone, single wooden mullion and lattice glazing. The window is surmounted by a clock in diamond shaped wood frame. At bell stage there is a second brick band and stone dressed semi-circular arched openings with louvres to the four faces of the tower. There is brick parapet with stone coping and vase finials to the corners. Weather vane on high standing metal support. The north aisle wall is brick and has three replaced segmental arched windows with single mullion and lattice glazing. Above there are three plain rectangular clerestory lead glazed windows set in timber framing. The stone slate roof of the chancel continues as a catslide over the aisle but this is broken by a gabled dormer, with elliptical window, surmounting a boarded door flanked by two more elliptical windows. The chancel quoins are rusticated. The chancel window is large and square with three wood mullions and lattice glazing. The roof of the chancel also sweeps down over the south aisle and there is an oak boarded door in dowelled oak frame flanked by 2 or 3-light oak lattice glazed easements. The south aisle wall is C19 coursed squared rubble, it has a blocked door opening, three lancets with high ogee transomes and a window with three ogee headed lights. This aisle has pitched grey slate roof and solid parapet with weathered coping. Interior: The chancel is separated from the aisles by timber posts, supporting trusses, and the nave by arcade piers, in the Norman style, with early French style Gothic capitals. Stone chancel arch, rebated both sides. Panelled reredos to aise eaves level. Altar rail, of turned balusters, returns both sides to define the aisles. Four Gothic monuments set in recess in the south aisle walls. Black painted commandment boards on north aisle wall. Stone font in Norman style. Chancel roof has trusses with cambered arch braced tie beams and king posts to high collars. Three runs of purlins with curved wind braces, the post-supported wallplates become the upper plates of the aisle catslide roofs. The nave roof has two king post trusses, single purlins and exposed rafters.

Listing NGR: SJ8008767185

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National Grid Reference: SJ 80087 67185

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