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Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Paul and Attached Wall and Gates

Cathedral Church Of St Peter And St Paul And Attached Wall And Gates

City Centre

South Yorkshire

Shrewsbury chapel 1520.

Architectural Features

On the north side of the chancel, a single storey Church Burgesses room in the style of a C15 chantry chapel, with buttresses, moulded plinth and crenellated parapet.

Restored steep pitched hammer beam roof with arch braces and gilt angel bosses.

South side has 3 stained glass windows.

North chancel chapel (St Katharine) has similar roof and 2 stained glass windows.

South-east side has a blocked opening and a C13 cusped piscina.

South transept has low pitched roof and stained glass south window, c1876.

North transept has low pitched roof with bosses and to east, a double chamfered arch and C20 carved wooden screen, into north chancel chapel.

Passage at south-east end has a chamfered arch to the organ chamber, and to east, a doorway and a stained glass window, 1938.

Western crossing has flattened pointed chamfered arches with chamfered quatrefoil piers, and a stained glass roof lantern, all c1960.

North end has a moulded C13 style triple arcade with billeted arches and clustered chamfered piers without capitals.

Larger central bay has a moulded pointed doorway with hoodmould and angel bosses, under a square stepped gable.

MEMORIALS include a chest tomb under a flat topped panelled arch with billeted crest, between the chancel and the south chapel, 1538, to the 4th earl of Shrewsbury.

Monument to 6th Earl, 1590, on south chapel wall, with panelled base and flanking columns carrying a large crested achievement.

Bust on chamfered base with standing allegorical figures flanking the inscription, to Rev. A Mackenzie, 1818, and tablet with seated allegorical figure in front of 2 urns, with profile portraits, to Thomas and Elizabeth Harrison, 1823, also by Chantrey.

Freestanding late C19 war memorial with standing figures, and alabaster war memorial tablet c1920.

STAINED GLASS includes C14 north transept north window, removed from Church of St Luke, Hollis Croft.

FITTINGS include C15 canopied oak sedilia with traceried panels.

Restored C16 altar slab, with C20 octagonal posts and wooden reredos.

North chancel Chapel screen, 1935, by WH Randall Blacking, bishop's throne, 1937 by Sir Charles Nicholson, traceried octagonal oak pulpit, 1887, and round granite font with bronze supports, 1881.