St Peter's Church, Oughtrington

St Peter's Church, Oughtrington
St Peter's Church, Oughtrington
St Peter's Church, Oughtrington Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°22′49″N 2°27′39″W / 53.3803°N 2.4609°W / 53.3803; -2.4609
OS grid reference	SJ 694 872
Location	Oughtrington, Lymm, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Peter's Oughtrington
History
Dedication	St Peter
Consecrated	1872
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	14 June 1984
Architect(s)	Slater and Carpenter
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1871
Completed	1872
Specifications
Length	106 feet (32 m)
Nave width	49 feet (15 m)
Height	54 feet (16 m)
Number of spires	1
Spire height	104 feet (32 m)
Materials	Grey sandstone, grey slate roofs
Administration
Parish	St Peter, Oughtrington
Deanery	Bowdon
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Rev Michael Burgess
Laity
Reader	Sheila Thacker, Roy Bond
Churchwarden(s)	Sheila Biddle, Alison Precious

St Peter's Church, Oughtrington is in the settlement of Oughtrington to the east of the village of Lymm, Cheshire, England. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building,^[1] and an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Bowdon. Its benefice is combined with that of St Werburgh, Warburton.^[2]

History

The church was built in 1871–72 at the expense of C. G. Dewhurst, the architects being Slater and Carpenter.^[1] Initially a chapel of ease in the parish of St Mary's Church, Lymm, it became a separate parish in 1881. In 1932 a Lady Chapel was created in the north aisle to celebrate the jubilee.^[3]

Architecture

It is built in grey snecked rubble sandstone with grey slate roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, an apsidal chancel, a south vestry, a south porch and a northeast tower with a spire. At the west end is a rose window above four lancet windows. The tower has a square base over which is an octagonal belfry surrounded by pinnacles, and a stone spire.^[1] The authors of the Buildings of England series consider that the spire is too thin for such a substantial church and that the pinnacles are "unjustifiable".^[4] The stained glass in the apse, dated 1894, and in one of the windows in the south aisle is by Kempe, and the stained glass in the windows at the west end, dated 1907, is by A. K. Nicholson.^[3]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} "Church of St Peter, Lymm", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1265847, retrieved 7 May 2011 
2. ^ St Peter, Oughtrington, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/oughtrington-st-peter/, retrieved 13 October 2009 
3. ^ ^{a b} The Parish Church of St Peter, Oughtrington, St Peter's, Oughtrington, http://www.oughtrington.co.uk/stpeterschurch/, retrieved 25 March 2008 
4. ^ Hartwell, Claire; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, pp. 517–518, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6