West Tower. Hampton Lucy
St Peter's church in Hampton Lucy (on the northern edge of Charlecote Park) is one of the most outstanding churches of the pre-Victorian Gothic Revival, dating from 1822-6 and built to the design of Thomas Rickman.
The church consists of a spacious aisled nave with plaster vaulted ceilings and a soaring west tower. The chancel was altered on !856 when George Gilbert Scott added the elaborate polygonal apse in full blown Victorian Gothic, a masterpiece in it's own right.
The most notable glass is that by Thomas Willement in the three apse windows from 1837 (formerly conrtained in one huge window before Rickman's east end was altered). Other windows contain glass by Hardmans of Birmingham. Some of the most attractive of all are the richly coloured and patterned geometric windows high in the nave clerestorey, casting their varied hues (especially blues and purples) across the vaulting on sunny days.
West Tower. Hampton Lucy
St Peter's church in Hampton Lucy (on the northern edge of Charlecote Park) is one of the most outstanding churches of the pre-Victorian Gothic Revival, dating from 1822-6 and built to the design of Thomas Rickman.
The church consists of a spacious aisled nave with plaster vaulted ceilings and a soaring west tower. The chancel was altered on !856 when George Gilbert Scott added the elaborate polygonal apse in full blown Victorian Gothic, a masterpiece in it's own right.
The most notable glass is that by Thomas Willement in the three apse windows from 1837 (formerly conrtained in one huge window before Rickman's east end was altered). Other windows contain glass by Hardmans of Birmingham. Some of the most attractive of all are the richly coloured and patterned geometric windows high in the nave clerestorey, casting their varied hues (especially blues and purples) across the vaulting on sunny days.