Church Of St Peter

SO 36 SW TITLEY CP TITLEY

4/48 Church of St Peter

GV II

Parish church. 1865 by E Haycock Jnr. On site of former priory of a cell of the order or Tiron, a branch of the Benedictine order. Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and tiled roof. West tower, nave with north aisle and south porch, chancel with north vestry. West tower of three stages with string course and embattled parapet. Single lancets to each stage. Clock face to south. Nave has plinth and a string course which continues over the windows and acts as a label. Four bays with one single traceried light to left and two windows with two cinquefoil headed lights and quatrefoil in roundel to right of gabled south porch with trefoil headed outer doorway. Four similar 2-light windows to north aisle. Tripartite window to chancel with outer taller trefoil-headed lights flanking central shorter light and trefoil in roundel, single trefoil headed light to right, 3-light east window. Interior has a four-bay arcade to the north aisle with two-centred arched heads and circular piers with moulded bases and capitals. Open arch-braced trusses to nave and chancel. Monuments on south wall of chancel; two wall tablets, both Greenly memorials with broken pedi- ment and cartouche of arms, Doric pilasters, commemorate John Greenly, died 1729 and William Greenly, died 1834. (BoE, p 300).

Listing NGR: SO3312560178