Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Cheshire East local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
eternal-gutter-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Crewe and Nantwich MP: Connor Naismith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Peter, Hungerford Road, Crewe
OS grid reference
SJ 710 557
Coordinates
53.09824, -2.43319
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is a parish church built between 1914 and 1923 by architects J Brooke and C E Elcock. It is constructed from red sandstone ashlar and features a green slate roof. The church has a three-bay nave with side gables that contain leaded light windows in the Perpendicular style, along with lancet windows adorned with stained glass. There are hood moulds above the windows and inter-window reducing buttresses. The west nave entrance includes twin doors leading into the baptistery, featuring double multi-panelled doors under gothic arches that transition into splayed reveals formed by clasping buttresses. The eaves gutter is supported by a simple bevelled cornice, and the gable copings are topped with a twin bell cote and a cross finial.

Inside, a short arcade of two arches creates narrow side aisles that lead from the baptistery into the nave, which is defined by three large arches that die into the piers and wider side aisles. The chancel, which has two bays, is flanked by the organ chamber to the north and the vestry to the south. Notable interior features include a carved oak reredos with a "Last Supper" motif, a projecting cornice, and linenfold panelling. The chancel also contains one-level sedilia and choir stalls. A carved oak pulpit is present, and the walls are plastered. The ceilings are made of polished hardwood with barrel shapes and shaped ribs supported by stone corbels.

Local climate

Church of St Peter receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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