Nave, St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton
St Peter’s Collegiate Church is in Wolverhampton City Centre; although there has been a church on this site since Saxon times, the current building mostly dates from the 15th Century when St Peter’s, after a period of neglect, received the support of some new patrons.
St Peter’s is built of red sandstone on an elevated site. The oldest part of the building above ground is the crossing under the tower, centre of shot here, which probably dates from the beginnings of the Abbey in 1200, followed by the Chapel of Our Lady and St George (Lady Chapel).
Much of the Church was rebuilt and extended in the fourteenth century, in the Decorated Style. However, the Church was to be substantially altered in the middle of the 15th Century at the expense of the town’s wool merchants, with the addition of a clerestory to the nave, and reduction in height of the north and south aisles. The upper part of the tower was rebuilt around 1475 to a height of 120 feet, and the Chapel of St Catherine and St Nicholas (Memorial Chapel) was completed at the end of the fifteenth century. The chancel was reconstructed in 1682 following considerable damage caused to the original medieval one during the Civil War, and it was again completely rebuilt in 1867 as part of the extensive restoration of the Church under architect Ewan Christian.
The three-manual Father Willis organ, was built in 1860, and the church has a strong musical tradition.
This description incorporates text from the English WIkipedia.
Nave, St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton
St Peter’s Collegiate Church is in Wolverhampton City Centre; although there has been a church on this site since Saxon times, the current building mostly dates from the 15th Century when St Peter’s, after a period of neglect, received the support of some new patrons.
St Peter’s is built of red sandstone on an elevated site. The oldest part of the building above ground is the crossing under the tower, centre of shot here, which probably dates from the beginnings of the Abbey in 1200, followed by the Chapel of Our Lady and St George (Lady Chapel).
Much of the Church was rebuilt and extended in the fourteenth century, in the Decorated Style. However, the Church was to be substantially altered in the middle of the 15th Century at the expense of the town’s wool merchants, with the addition of a clerestory to the nave, and reduction in height of the north and south aisles. The upper part of the tower was rebuilt around 1475 to a height of 120 feet, and the Chapel of St Catherine and St Nicholas (Memorial Chapel) was completed at the end of the fifteenth century. The chancel was reconstructed in 1682 following considerable damage caused to the original medieval one during the Civil War, and it was again completely rebuilt in 1867 as part of the extensive restoration of the Church under architect Ewan Christian.
The three-manual Father Willis organ, was built in 1860, and the church has a strong musical tradition.
This description incorporates text from the English WIkipedia.