Dorset, Bournmouth - St Peter's Church (57)
St Peter’s Church, Bournmouth, Dorset
Designed by G E Street, St Peter’s church was completed in 1879. The building brings together work by Street, Arthur Blomfield, George Frederick Bodley, Ninian Comper and Edward Burne-Jones, architects and artists of the Gothic Revival Movement. Complete with wonderful windows of Clayton & Bell.
The interior has been described as one of the finest of its kind in England.
Notable burials The Shelley family has a long connection with St Peter’s. Mary Wollstonecraft, author of “A vindication of the Rights of Woman” pub. In 1792. William Godwin, a philosopher, her husband is also buried there alongside their second daughter Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin later to become Mary Shelley. Mary was the author of ‘Frankenstein’, she married Percy Bysshe Shelley the poet.
Dorset, Bournmouth - St Peter's Church (57)
St Peter’s Church, Bournmouth, Dorset
Designed by G E Street, St Peter’s church was completed in 1879. The building brings together work by Street, Arthur Blomfield, George Frederick Bodley, Ninian Comper and Edward Burne-Jones, architects and artists of the Gothic Revival Movement. Complete with wonderful windows of Clayton & Bell.
The interior has been described as one of the finest of its kind in England.
Notable burials The Shelley family has a long connection with St Peter’s. Mary Wollstonecraft, author of “A vindication of the Rights of Woman” pub. In 1792. William Godwin, a philosopher, her husband is also buried there alongside their second daughter Mary Wollstonecraft-Godwin later to become Mary Shelley. Mary was the author of ‘Frankenstein’, she married Percy Bysshe Shelley the poet.