Church Of St Peter

WROCKWARDINE WROCKWARDINE 1. 5362 Church of St Peter

SJ 6212 3/658 18.6.59

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1. Mainly late C12 to early C13. Large sandstone church with tiled roofs. Cruciform plan with nave, chancel, north and south transepts, crossing tower and chapels on north and south sides of chancel. Nave has C19 restored Decorated style windows, the west window with reticulated tracery. Chancel has reticulated traceried 3-light east window and round-headed lancel in south wall. North and south transepts have 3-light perpendicular windows and south doorway of south transept has round arch and thick continuous quarter-round mouldings. The north doorway of north transept has round arch and one order of shafts though the shafts are missing the trumpet and waterleaf capitals remain. North chapel has decorated 3-light east window. Small perpendicular south chapel. Crossing tower of C12 with C14 upper part. It has large buttresses with set-offs on south-west and north-west corners and a circular turret on the north-west corner with ogee cap, battlements and pyramidal tiled roof. Lancets in the tower stage and Decorated 2-light bell-openings above. Interior: Massive crossing piers with narrow fluting to the capitals. C19 roofs. Modern font. Jacobean pulpit. Communion rail with balusters. Stained glass by O'Connar 1861 and by Kempe 1887 and 1902. Memorial window of 1906 by Mary Newill. Monument to William Chudde 1765 - large Rococo tablet.

Listing NGR: SJ6246312051