Church Of Our Lady And St Peter In Chains And Attached Presbytery

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SJ8645 HARTSHILL ROAD 613-1/9/132 (North East side) Church of Our Lady and St Peter in Chains and attached Presbytery

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Roman Catholic Church. 1857. By Charles Hansom. Chancel 1884-5, by A.E. Purdie. Yellow brick with red brick bands and Welsh slate roof and composite tile. Early Decorated style, with nave and aisles, and chancel. 2-storeyed porch in SW corner of S aisle, 4-light Decorated west window over blank arcading. South aisle of 5 bays with 3-light Decorated windows and clerestory over. Below the church to the east, the presbytery adjoins. INTERIOR richly decorated with western gallery carried on clustered shafts and open-work tracery between. Nave of 4 bays with additional narrow western bay. Cylindrical shafts with foliate capitals. Stilted trusses carried on clustered shafts sprung from corbels. Windowless N aisle and high chancel arch with rood and flanking statues under crocketed canopies. Altar with reredos with statues of saints in niches. Painted panelled ceiling. Stained glass in east window. N chancel arcade and stained glass in high S chancel windows. Font with richly carved octagonal panels and wood canopy. Painted oak panels with stations of the cross. Attached presbytery of 1857 in similar style with composite tile roof, gables and truncated stacks. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: P.262).

Listing NGR: SJ8738345664