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St Peter's Church, Hindley
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| OS grid reference | SD 616 042 |
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| Location | Hindley, Wigan, Greater Manchester |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | St Peter, Hindley |
| History | |
| Dedication | Saint Peter |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Designated | 10 May 1988 |
| Architect(s) | E. G. Paley |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1863 |
| Completed | 1866 |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings Slate roof |
| Administration | |
| Parish | St Peter, Hindley |
| Deanery | Wigan |
| Archdeaconry | Warrington |
| Diocese | Liverpool |
| Province | York |
| Clergy | |
| Vicar(s) | Revd. Stephen Mather |
| Curate(s) | Revd. George Taylor |
| Laity | |
| Reader | Norma Ackers |
| Director of music | James Archer |
| Churchwarden(s) | Anita Archer, Mark Keegan |
St Peter's Church, Hindley, is in Atherton Road, Hindley, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Wigan, the archdeaconry of Warrington, and the diocese of Liverpool.[1] St Peter's has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2]
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The church was built in 1863–66 and designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley.[3]
St Peter's is constructed in rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel with a southwest vestry, north and south porches, and a northeast tower with a broach spire. The tower has diagonal buttresses, a stair turret to the east, and a three-light north window. The bell openings are paired, each having two lights and louvres. At the top of the tower is a cornice and gargoyles. The spire has two tiers of lucarnes, the lower tier having two lights. Along the walls of the aisles are two-light windows containing Geometric tracery. Between the windows are buttresses with gables, the cornices of which are carved with animals. Along the clerestory are pairs of two-light windows. At the west end of the nave is a four-light window flanked by gabled buttresses. There are two-light windows at the west ends of the aisles. The east window has three lights, and is also flanked by gabled buttresses. In the south wall of the chancel is a two-light window with a trefoil head.[2]
The arcades are carried on round piers with crocketted capitals. The wagon roof is supported by separate corbelled shafts. In the church are two wrought iron chandeliers. The font is round and is carried on a quatrefoil column. Its bowl is carved with roundels.[2] The stained glass includes a window dated 1881 to the memory of a nine-year-old child; it incorporates his photograph twice. The organ is at the west end.[3] It has three manuals and was made by Edmund Schulze in 1873.[4] It was rebuilt in 1903 with pneumatic action by Thomas Pendlebury of Leigh.[5] In 1966 J. H. Cowen of Liverpool added a detached electric console and more stops.[6] In 1977 most of the alterations made by Cowan were reversed by the Pendlebury Organ Company of Cleveleys, who also added a new detached drawstop console. The organ has been awarded a Historic Organ Certificate, Grade II*.[7] The ring consists of eight bells, all cast in 1866 by Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.[8]