Church in Cheshire, England
St Peter's Church, Minshull Vernon St Peter's Church, Minshull Vernon, from the northeast
St Peter's Church, Minshull Vernon
Location in Cheshire
Coordinates : 53°07′51″N 2°28′38″W / 53.1309°N 2.4773°W / 53.1309; -2.4773 OS grid reference SJ 682 594 Location Middlewich Road, Minshull Vernon , Cheshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter, Minshull Vernon Status Parish church Dedication Saint Peter Consecrated 12 December 1849 Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 20 December 1983 Architect(s) John Matthews Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Groundbreaking 1847 Completed 1849 Construction cost £1,700 Materials Stone, slate roofs Parish Leighton-cum-Minshull Vernon Deanery Nantwich Archdeaconry Macclesfield Diocese Chester Province York Vicar(s) Revd Catherine Grace Cleghorn (since January 2021) Churchwarden(s) Jim Britcliffe and Ron Gallimore
St Peter's Church is in Middlewich Road, Minshull Vernon , Cheshire , England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Nantwich, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the diocese of Chester . Its benefice is combined with that of St Leonard, Warmingham .[1] National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building .[2] Commissioners' church , having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.[3]
History [ ] The parish of Minshull Vernon was formed in 1840, and the earlier church stood on a different site nearer to where Leighton Hospital now stands. This church was damaged by fire and was demolished.[4] [5] consecrated on 12 December 1849.[1] [3] [4] [6] transept to accommodate the organ was added in 1903,[4] [5] vestry was added to the west end of the church in 1966.[4]
Architecture [ ] The church is constructed in stone with slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave , a north porch, a chancel that is narrower and lower than the nave, a north transept for the organ, and a south vestry. On the west gable is a double bellcote . Most of the windows are lancets , with a triple lancet at the east end. Inside the church is an oak pulpit and a lectern in the shape of an eagle. On the north wall of the chancel is a trefoil -headed sedilia . The choir benches are carved with poppyheads .[2] [4] Congregational church in Cheadle in 1974. Stained glass was added to the small window above the chancel arch to celebrate the millennium.[7] [8] manual pipe organ was built in 1847 by Wadsworth.[9]
Churchyard [ ] The churchyard contains the war grave, standing east of the church, of a soldier of World War I .[10]
See also [ ]
Cheshire portal
References [ ]
^ a b St Peter's, Leighton-cum-Minshull Vernon, Crewe Church of England , retrieved 21 March 2012 ^ a b Historic England , "Church of St Peter, Minshull Vernon (1330057)" , National Heritage List for England , retrieved 21 March 2012 ^ a b Port, M. H. (2006), 600 New Churches: The Church Building Commission 1818–1856 (2nd ed.), Reading: Spire Books, p. 331, ISBN 978-1-904965-08-4 ^ a b c d e History of Leighton-cum-Minshull Vernon , retrieved 21 March 2012 ^ a b Hartwell, Clare; Hyde, Matthew; Hubbard, Edward ; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2011) [1971], Cheshire , The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press , p. 483, ISBN 978-0-300-17043-6 ^ UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" , MeasuringWorth , retrieved December 2, 2021
^ Information , retrieved 21 March 2012 ^ Added by the then church warden who was present
^ "NPOR [D06248]" , National Pipe Organ Register British Institute of Organ Studies , retrieved 2 July 2020 ^ ROBINSON, J Commonwealth War Graves Commission , retrieved 3 February 2013
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