St Peter's Church, Macclesfield
St Peter's Church is in Windmill Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.  It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the deanery of Macclesfield.  It forms a team ministry with three other Macclesfield churches: St Michael, All Saints, and St Barnabas.  The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.  It was a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.

History

St Peter's was built in 1849, and designed by Charles and James Trubshaw.  It was planned to have a spire, but this was never built. A grant of £257 () was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission. The interior was re-ordered in 2005.

Architecture

Exterior
The church is constructed in rubble stone with tiled roofs.  Its architectural style is Early English.  The plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a northeast vestry, and a southwest tower.  The tower is in four stages with corner buttresses, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles.  There are doors on the west and southwest sides, lancet windows in the second stage, circular clock faces in the third stage, and paired louvred bell openings in the top stage.  Along the sides of the church the bays are divided by buttresses, each bay containing a lancet window.  The clerestory contains gabled dormers.  The east window in the chancel is a stepped triple lancet.

Interior
Inside the church is a west gallery.  The nave is divided from the aisles by five-bay arcades carried on circular piers whose capitals are decorated with stiff-leaf carving.  The bowl of the font has blind trefoil arcading, and is carried on clustered shafts.  The wooden lectern is elaborately carved.  The organ was built in 1891 by Young.  There is a ring of eight bells, all of which were cast in 1947 by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough.

See also

List of Commissioners' churches in Northeast and Northwest England
Listed buildings in Macclesfield

References

Church of England church buildings in Cheshire
Grade II listed churches in Cheshire
Churches completed in 1849
19th-century Church of England church buildings
Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Gothic Revival architecture in Cheshire
Diocese of Chester
Commissioners' church buildings
1849 establishments in England