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St Peter

St Peter

Wolverhampton

West Midlands

Late C13 crossing and south transept

Architectural Features

late C15 nave, tower and north transept

4-bay chancel and 7-bay apse, in Decorated style, articulated by offset buttresses with crocketed gables and gargoyles to cornice below openwork parapet, has 2-light windows to apse and 3-light windows with flowing tracery to chancel.

North transept has offset buttresses, embattled parapet and C17 round-headed windows to north and east with large central mullion.

INTERIOR: vaulted ceiling to apse with angel and square foliate capitals to shafts and angels to cornice

hammer-beam roof to chancel has angel corbels with angels to brattished cornice

crossing has C17 beams to late C19 painted ceiling

transepts have late C15 moulded tie-beam roofs

5-bay Perpendicular nave arcades on octagonal piers, and C15 nave roof with carved spandrels to moulded tie beams, panelled ceiling with bosses.

Fittings: chancel stalls have traceried fronts and angel finials

crossing has C19 timber screen to north, similar to C15 screen to south with open tracery and C15 shafts supporting brattished cornice

screen to south transept has C15 shafts and blind tracery panels below open-work upper panels, C19 brattished cornice

nave has C15 panelled stone pulpit on shaft with stair winding round pier and parapet with crouching lion to foot

late C17 west gallery, much altered

late C19 two-stage internal timber porch in Decorated style with openwork tracery and figures under crocketed canopies.

Some C15 stalls from Lilleshall Abbey.

Memorials: north transept: chest tomb to Thomas Lane d. 1582, carved balusters and figures and armorial bearings to sides, 2 finely carved recumbent effigies

wall monument to John Lane d. 1667, a distinguished soldier instrumental in the rescue of Charles II, is in marble and alabaster and has inscribed panel in Ionic aedicule with garlanded scrolls and heraldic cartouche in swan-necked pediment flanked by cannon, and projecting base has finely carved trophy of arms with crown in oak tree to left

south transept has bronze figure and cherubs from monument to Admiral Leveson, c1635, by Le Seur, and chest tomb to John Leveson d. 1575 and wife, with spiral corner balusters, figures and armorial shields to sides, finely carved recumbent effigies

north aisle has wall tablet to Henry Bracegirdle d. 1702, inscribed panel in Doric aedicule, painted board to William Walker d. 1634 and other C19/early C20 wall tablets including George Thorneycroft d. 1851 and South African war memorial.

Stained glass by C.E.Kempe to south aisle and good east window to south transept.