Church Of St Peter

SE 7971 NORTON-ON-DERWENT LANGTON ROAD (east side) 9/33 Church of St Peter 4.5.67 II Church. 1889-91. By C Hodgson Fowler. Chiselled sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roof. West tower; 6-bay, aisled nave and clerestory; south porch; chancel, vestry, organ chamber and south chapel. 4-stage buttressed tower on plinth has west door beneath pointed head- stopped hood-mould. 4-light window with reticulated tracery and chamfered sill above with a stopped ogee-arched hood-mould. Bracketed ledge to third stage with statue of St Peter beneath crocketed canopy. 2-light mullion and transom bell openings beneath crocketed ogee arches to each face, over corbelled chamfered band. Corbel table beneath embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles and waterspouts. Opening to gabled south porch is a 2- centred arch on half octagonal shafts with a continuous hood-mould forming an impost band. Triple-arched niche over. Pointed doors with long foliate wrought-iron hinges. Buttressed nave has 2-light windows with reticulated tracery beneath pointed hood-moulds. Continuous sill band. Clerestory windows are similar, of 3 lights. Tall west window of 5 lights with reticulated tracery and chamfered sill band. Coped gables and gable crosses to nave, chancel and porch. Interior: tall quoined tower arch of 3 chamfered orders. Pointed arcade of 2 chamfered orders on octagonal piers. Chancel arch of 2 orders springing from responds with attached shafts. Cll square font with blind arcading on a cylindrical pedestal with roll moulded foot. Pulpit and tester by W Brierley. Stained glass window by Kempe.

Listing NGR: SE7942771029