Church Of St Peter

SJ 75 NW FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE HUNGERFORD ROAD

2/53 Church of St.Peter

II

Parish Church, 1914-23, by J Brooke & C E Elcock. Red sandstone ashlar with green slate roof, 3-bay nave. Side gables with leaded light windows, in Perpendicular style, interspersed with lancets with stained glass. Hood moulds over windows and inter-window reducing buttresses. Twin doors in west nave entrance, into baptistery, of double multi-panelled doors under gothic arches which die into splayed reveals, formed by clasping buttresses simple bevelled cornice supports eaves gutter. Gable copings and twin bell cote with cross finial. Interior: Short arcade of two arches, forming narrow side aisles, leads from baptistery into a nave of three large arches which die into the piers, and wider side aisles. The 2 bay chancel is flanked north by the organ chamber and south by the vestry. Carved oak reredos with "Last Supper" motif, projecting cornice and linenfold panelling. One-level sedilia, choir stalls within chancel. Carved oak pulpit. Plastered walls. Polished hardwood barrel ceilings with shaped ribs off stone corbels.

Listing NGR: SJ7109155757