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St Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne 
St Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, from the southeastLocation in Greater Manchester
St Peter's Church, Ashton-under-LyneCoordinates: 53°29′02″N 2°06′21″W / 53.4840°N 2.1058°W OS grid reference SJ 931 986 Location Manchester Road,
Ashton-under-Lyne,
Greater ManchesterCountry England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter, Ashton-under-Lyne History Dedication Saint Peter Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 12 January 1967 Architect(s) Francis Goodwin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1821 Completed 1824 Specifications Materials Stone, slate roof Administration Parish The Good Shepherd,
Ashton-under-LyneDeanery Ashton-under-Lyne Archdeaconry Rochdale Diocese Manchester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd Josie Partridge St Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne, is located in Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ashton-under-Lyne, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.[1] With four other local churches, it is part of the Parish of the Good Shepherd, Ashton-under-Lyne.[2] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[3] It is a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.[4] The authors of the Buildings of England series consider it to be a "large and ambitious" church.[5] In the National Heritage List for England it is described as a "particularly imposing and elaborate example of a Commissioner's Church".[3]
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History
St Peter's was built between 1821 and 1824, and was designed by Francis Goodwin. A grant of £13,191 (£960,000 as of 2011)[6] was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission.[4] The land for the church was given by the 6th Earl of Stamford. It was the first of three churches designed by Goodwin for the Commission in the Manchester area. In 1840 a clock was installed with its face at the east end, the mechanism at the west end, and connected by a drive shaft running the whole length of the church.[5] During the later part of the 20th century, the west end was divided under the gallery.[5]
Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed in ashlar stone with a slate roof. Its plan consists of a seven-bay nave with a canted vestry at the east end acting as a chancel. At the west end is a tower. The tower is in three stages with buttresses at the corners rising to piers surmounted by pinnacles. It has a west door over which is a three-stage window. At a higher level are clock faces under gablets.[3] In the top stage are pairs of open pointed arches acting as bell openings. The parapet is also open and is traceried.[5] Each bay of the nave contains a three-light transomed window. These contain tracery in Perpendicular style constructed in cast iron and painted to look like stone. Between the bays are buttresses rising to pinnacles. The pinnacles at the corners of the church are crocketed.[3] At the east end is a rose window, above which is a clock face in the gable.[5]
Interior
There are galleries on three sides in the church, carried on quatrefoil cast iron columns. The church originally contained box pews but these, and many other furnishings, have since been removed. The stained glass in the east rose window dates from the 1830s, and is by David Evans of Shrewsbury; it depicts the twelve apostles. On the north side of the church is a window by W. Pointer dating from 1923, and three windows by Curtis, Ward and Hughes from the 1890s and 1901. The south side includes windows by Lavers and Westlake.[5] The three-manual organ was built in 1831 by Samuel Renn, and rebuilt in 1959 by J. J. Binns.[7] The ring consists of eight bells, all cast in 1871 by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.[8]
See also
- List of churches in Greater Manchester
- List of Commissioners' churches in Northeast and Northwest England
References
- ^ St Peter, Ashton-under-Lyne, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/ashton-under-lyne-st-peter/, retrieved 16 October 2011
- ^ Welcome to our website, Parish of the Good Shepherd, http://www.goodshepherdashton.co.uk/index.php/site/category/parish_of_the_good_shepherd/, retrieved 16 October 2011
- ^ a b c d Church of St Peter, Ashton-under-Lyne (1067994). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
- ^ a b Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818-1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 326, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4
- ^ a b c d e f Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2004), Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 114–115, ISBN 0-300-10583-5
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ Lancashire (Manchester, Greater), Ashton-Under-Lyne, St. Peter (N10960), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N10960, retrieved 17 October 2011
- ^ Ashton under Lyne, S Peter, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=ashton&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=ASHTON+ULP, retrieved 17 October 2011
Categories:- Grade II listed buildings in Greater Manchester
- Church of England churches in Greater Manchester
- Anglican Diocese of Manchester
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Anglican congregations established in the 19th century
- Gothic Revival architecture in Greater Manchester
- Commissioners' churches
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