Church Of St Peter Ad Vincula

STOKE ON TRENT

SJ8645 GLEBE STREET 613-1/9/120 (South East side) 02/10/51 Church of St Peter Ad Vincula

GV II

Parish Church. 1826-30, interior renovated 1888. By Trubshaw and Johnson. Ashlar faced. Commissioners Gothic style, with west tower, nave and two aisles, chancel. West tower of 3 stages with polygonal angle buttresses forming pinnacles to parapet which also has blank traceried battlements. Simple chamfered arch to west door with hood mould carried on corbel heads. 3-light window with transom over, clock, and paired lights to bell chamber. Door in flat porch against south wall. Aisles divided into 5 bays by buttresses with crocketed pinnacles. 3-light traceried window with transom in each bay with stained glass in lower panels. Chancel of 2 bays with large polygonal angle buttresses, and 5-light Perpendicular style east window. INTERIOR: reported as having Saxon font, stained glass east window by David Evans and monuments including those to Josiah Wedgwood by Flaxman (relief portrait medallion), Josiah Spode II and John Bourne. (The Victoria History of the Counties of England: Pugh RB: Staffordshire: Oxford: 1963-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: P.262).

Listing NGR: SJ8793145213