Former Church Of St Peter

MANCHESTER

SJ8498 BLOSSOM STREET, Ancoats 698-1/17/447 (South side) 03/10/74 Former Church of St Peter

GV II

Church, now disused. 1859-60, by Isaac Holden & Son. Red brick with dressings of white brick, slate roofs. Romanesque style. Nave with apsidal east end, north and south aisles and transepts, north-west tower. Tall square campanile tower with very tall first stage and belfry stage divided by a cornice, short set-back top stage; panelled sides to the 1st stage with Lombard friezes, large round-headed doorway on north side with set-in shafts, keystone and double-doors with ornamental strap hinges, round-headed lancet above doorway and very small lancet near top; round-headed 2-light louvred belfry windows, stylised and polychrome frieze; small round-headed window with flanking lancets to top stage; swept pryramidal roof. Four-bay aisles with sill-band to round-headed windows with imposts linked to raised panels pendent from Lombard frieze; low gabled transepts with stepped tripartite windows in similar style. Arcaded clerestory with coupled windows between blind arches. All windows have white brick heads and most were boarded at time of survey. Interior not inspected but reported (by Pevsner) to have 5 lofty bays with thin cast-iron columns and semi-circular brick arches, "superb roof: segmental plaster vault with slight coffers divided into bays by four elegant cast-iron trusses with enriched spandrels"; bench ends also cast-iron.

Listing NGR: SJ8495698678