St Peter's Church, Tabley

St Peter's Church, Tabley

St Peter's Church, Tabley, from the northwest
St Peter's Church, Tabley
Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°17′46″N 2°24′51″W / 53.2961°N 2.4142°W / 53.2961; -2.4142
OS grid reference SJ 725 777
Location Tabley House near Knutsford, Cheshire
Country England
Denomination Anglican
History
Dedication St Peter
Consecrated 1929
Architecture
Status Private chapel
Heritage designation Grade I
Designated 5 March 1959
Architectural type Chapel
Style Gothic
Groundbreaking 1675
Completed 1929
Specifications
Materials Brick with stone dressings
Stone slate roof
Administration
Diocese Chester
Province York

St Peter's Church is a chapel to the west of Tabley House near Knutsford, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.[1]

History

The chapel was originally built on an island in the lower mere called The Moat in 1675–78 beside Tabley Old Hall[2] by Sir Peter Leycester.[3] The tower was added around 1720.[4] In 1927 the chapel was moved to its present position because its foundations were being undermined by brine-pumping.[2]

Architecture

Structure

The chapel is joined to the house by a passage.[3] It is built in brick with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The plan consists of a west tower and a three-bay nave with an ante-chapel over which is a gallery. The tower is in three stages. The lowest stage has a two-light window above which is a parapet with stone balusters and ball finials. The next stage is recessed and has a diagonal clock faces on three sides. The belfry stage above this has two-light louvred openings with stone surrounds. At the top is another parapet with stone balusters and ball finials.[1]

Fittings and furniture

The ceiling is coved.[1] The interior of the chapel is panelled and the stalls are arranged down the sides. The pulpit is octagonal and it has a sounding board and an ancient hourglass. The reredos was painted by Lady Leighton and carved by Countess Bathurst, one of her aunts. One of the windows contains Flemish 17th-century stained glass, and another window dated 1895 was designed by Edward Burne-Jones and made by Morris & Co. In the ante-chapel is a war memorial to the tenants who died in the First World War which is made from panelling from the Old Hall.[3] The organ was made in 1876 by Bryceson Brothers and Morten of London.[5] The registers date from 1678 and contain records of the baptisms and weddings of the Leicester family and their tenants.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England, "St Peters Church at Tabley House (1329685)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 15 May 2012
  2. 1 2 Tabley, Tabley House, retrieved 6 August 2007
  3. 1 2 3 4 Richards, Raymond (1947), Old Cheshire Churches, London: Batsford, pp. 259–263, OCLC 719918
  4. ↑ Salter, Mark (1995), The Old Parish Churches of Cheshire, Malvern: Folly Publications, p. 73, ISBN 1-871731-23-2
  5. ↑ Tabley House Chapel, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 11 August 2008

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