- St Peter's Church, Westleigh, Greater Manchester
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St Peter's Church, Westleigh 
St Peter's Church, Westleigh, from the southeastLocation in Greater Manchester
St Peter's Church, WestleighCoordinates: 53°29′54″N 2°32′15″W / 53.4984°N 2.5376°W OS grid reference SD 644 003 Location Firs Lane, Westleigh, Leigh, Greater Manchester Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter Westleigh History Dedication Saint Peter Consecrated 1881 Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II* Designated 27 July 1987 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1879 Completed 1881 Construction cost £7,000 Specifications Materials Brick with sandstone dressings, Slate roof Administration Parish St Peter Westleigh Deanery Leigh Archdeaconry Salford Diocese Manchester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Revd F. C. Guite St Peter's Church, Westleigh, is located in Firs Lane, Westleigh, a district of Leigh, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Leigh, the archdeaconry of Salford, and the diocese of Manchester.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building.[2] It was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, and the architectural historians Pollard and Pevsner describe it as "one of their most radical and thrilling churches".[3]
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History
Building of the church started in 1879 and it was completed and consectrated in 1881. It cost £7,000 (£520,000 as of 2011).[3][4]
Architecture
The church is constructed in brick with red sandstone dressings and a slate roof. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave with a north aisle and a south porch, a two-bay chancel with a north vestry, and a central tower. Along the sides of the church are two-light flat-headed windows with Decorated tracery. The porch is gabled and has a niche for a statue above the doorway. The tower has buttresses, a three-light transomed window, and flat-headed bell openings. At the top of the tower is a parapet with an ashlar frieze below it, and a pyramidal roof. The east and west windows have five and four tramsomed lights respectively.[2]
Inside the church the arcade between the nave and north aisle is carried on circular sandstone columns with moulded capitals. The stone reredos contains four niches with statues. The alabaster pulpit is large and elaborate; it was formerly in Manchester Cathedral. The stained glass in the east window dates from 1949 and is by Abbott and Company of Lancaster.[3]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ St Peter, Westleigh, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/westleigh-st-peter-church/, retrieved 7 September 2011
- ^ a b Church of St Peter, Westleigh (1068481). National Heritage List for England. English Heritage. Retrieved 7 September 2011.
- ^ a b c Pollard, Richard; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2006), Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 230, ISBN 0-300-10910-5
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
Categories:- Grade II* listed churches
- Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
- Religious buildings completed in 1881
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Anglican congregations established in the 19th century
- Gothic Revival architecture in Greater Manchester
- Anglican Diocese of Manchester
- Paley and Austin buildings
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