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ST PETER'S CHURCH WAS BUILT IN 1850 TO MEET AN INCREASING DEMAND FOR A CHURCH ON THE NORTH EASTERN SIDE OF CHORLEY. IT WAS CONSECRATED ON ST MARK'S DAY 1851 BY THE FIRST BISHOP OF MANCHESTER, THE RT. REVD. JAMES PRINCE LEE. THE ARCHITECT WAS CHARLES REED OF LIVERPOOL.
STONE FOR THE BUILDING WAS DONATED BY LADY HOGHTON FROM HER QUARRY AND LOCAL FARMERS TRANSPORTED THE STONE WITHOUT CHARGE. THE TOTAL COST OF THE BUILDING CAME TO £2,131
THE ARCHITECT DESIGNED A CHURCH WITH SEATING FOR 450, EARLY ENGLISH STYLE, WITH A NAVE, CLERESTORY, TWO AISLES, CHANCEL, NORTH PORCH, VESTRY AND BELFRY TURRET AT THE WEST END OF THE NORTH AISLE.
Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.
Kilmersdon Church (St. Peter and St. Paul), Somerset, 15 October 2017. 15th-16th Century Perpendicular. Pictured are the south and east elevations.
St. Peter's Church, Mendota, MN. The first Catholic Parish in Minnesota. Originally a log building built in 1841. Mendota Historic District. For a real history...
www.stpetersmendota.org/History/Brauer/cover.htm
Mendota Historic District ** (added 1970 - Building - #70000293)
Also known as Old Mendota;St. Peter's;See Also:Sibley House
Roughly bounded by government lot 2, I-55, Sibley Hwy., D St., and Minnesota River, Mendota
Historic Significance: Person, Event
Historic Person: Sibley,Henry H.
Area of Significance: Exploration/Settlement, Politics/Government, Commerce
Period of Significance: 1825-1849, 1850-1874
Owner: Private
Historic Function: Domestic, Religion
Historic Sub-function: Religious Structure, Single Dwelling
Current Function: Religion, Social
Current Sub-function: Meeting Hall, Religious Structure, Restaurant
Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.
I came across Repps with its fine church, but as there was no dedication board outside I was unsure of which church it was. Made even more confused by a notice in the porch claiming that the dedication for Repps was Ss. peter and Paul. The two banners inside confirmed it was indeed Repps.
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At first sight, Repps is a large and rather ordinary village in the heart of the Norfolk Broads - but this is in itself an unusual thing, of course, and suggests that here is a village of ordinary Norfolk people leading ordinary Norfolk lives, which comes as something of a relief after to the tourist clamour of Wroxham and Hoveton. The church is set a little way out of the village, down towards the river, but is open every day, as they virtually all seem to be in the Broads (except for nearby Potter Heigham, where the eccentric churchwarden 'likes to know who's going into his church'). The parish has been a joint one with neighbouring Bastwick for centuries. The former Bastwick church tower still stands near the road to Ludham, proclaiming itself, somewhat surreally, a 'Cats Hotel'.
The flint tower of St Peter, with its13th Century bell stage crown, is a handsome one, and the red brick south porch offsets it nicely. Externally, this is still a pretty and rustic medieval church, but the interior is almost entirely the work of the 1890s. In fact, this is not a bad decade for church restorations; the heavy-handed enthusiasms of the previous few decades were now frowned upon, and the Church of England had not yet reached that mawkish apotheosis which the years immediately after the First World War would bring.
You step into a simple, lightly furnished space, with steps mounting into the chancel beyond the chancel arch. Turning back, the west end is plain and unadorned, a fitting setting for the font. It felt very loved and looked after. Best of all, I liked a pretty survival of the early 20th Century, the banner carried by the St Peter's Sunday School when processions were still a regular feature of the life of the Church of England.
Simon Knott, November 2008
St Peter, Ridlington, Norfolk
In any area where there is a large number of interesting small churches, you expect the less interesting ones to be locked, especially when they are in remote hamlets along narrow lanes, but St Peter is open every day for private prayer and to welcome strangers, like pretty much all of the churches of this large benefice. And of course it is not a church wholly without interest, for no church is. The tower, looking rather more Suffolk than Norfolk, retains medieval sculptures of the four evangelists at its corners, albeit very eroded, and the rebuilt red-brick east wall of the chancel employs a technique that Pevsner tells me is called tumbling to support the roof. Like most churches around here, St Peter was substantially rebuilt in the early 15th century, but what we see now is heavily restored by the Victorians.
Inside, this is a simple village church, lovingly kept and obviously still well used. The organ tucked in to the south of the chancel arch looks fine. The Purbeck marble font is similar to many around here, but set on its double pedestal in the open brick floor it looks very well indeed. A pleasant spot for a pilgrim or stranger to rest, I'd say.
St Peter's church at Stretton on Fosse is a small building dating from 1841, a replacement for an earlier building of which no trace now remains beyond some of the older tombstones in the churchyard. Within it is a simple and contemplative space, kept open and welcoming for visitors and worshippers alike.
For more see its entry on the Warwickshire Churches site below:-
warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/stretton-on-fosse---st-pe...
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), officially known in Italian as Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world.[1] While it is neither the official mother church of the Roman Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Pope as Bishop of Rome, Saint Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world"[2] and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom".[3]
In Roman Catholic tradition, the basilica is the burial site of its namesake Saint Peter, who was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus and, according to tradition, the first Bishop of Rome and therefore first in the line of the papal succession. Tradition and some historical evidence hold that Saint Peter's tomb is directly below the altar of the basilica. For this reason, many Popes have been interred at St. Peter's since the Early Christian period. There has been a church on this site since the 4th century. Construction of the present basilica, over the old Constantinian basilica, began on 18 April 1506 and was completed on 18 November 1626.[4]
St. Peter's is famous as a place of pilgrimage, for its liturgical functions and for its historical associations. It is associated with the papacy, with the Counter-reformation and with numerous artists, most significantly Michelangelo. As a work of architecture, it is regarded as the greatest building of its age.[5] Contrary to popular misconception, Saint Peter's is not a cathedral, as it is not the seat of a bishop. It is properly termed a papal basilica. The Archbasilica of St. John Lateran is the cathedral church of Rome.
East Bridgeford's church of St Peter was revealed to me after a slog up a hill, looked promising with some lively heads and gargoyles outside.
Not hugely exciting inside, but there are a couple of monuments, an Elizabethan family wall monument and a barely recognisable crusader effigy in the north aisle, and an early 17th century font of a type commonly found in these types (Pevsner calls it the 'Southwell type').
This church is normally kept open.
St. Peter is one of the four main churches of the old town of Zürich, Switzerland.
"Located next to the Lindenhof hill, site of the former Roman castle, it was built on the site of a temple to Jupiter. An early church of approximately 30X 20 feet occupied the site in the 8th or 9th century. This building was replaced by an early Romanesque church around AD 1000 before being replaced in 1230 by a second Romanesque structure, parts of which survive. The nave was rebuilt in 1460 in Gothic style. Prior to the Reformation, St. Peter was the only parish church of the town, the rest being part of monasteries.
The current building was consecrated in 1706 as the first church built under Protestant rule. Its congregation forms part of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich. Restoration work was carried out in 1970 to 1975. The steeple's clock face has a diameter of 26 feet, the largest church clock face in Europe.
St. Peter's Basilica dome @ Vatican city, Rome, Italy 2011
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), officially known in Italian as Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world. While it is neither the official mother church of the Roman Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Pope as Bishop of Rome, Saint Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom"
The Church of St Peter was built in 1150 on the site of a former Saxon Church, and is said to be the most outstanding example of a Norman church in the county. It was restored in 1850 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is no longer in use.
This is a grave slab carved in the 12th century. It is thought to hae belonged to St Ragener, who was killed fighting the Vikings in th 9th century, and brought back to St Peter's for burial. Edward the Confessor erected a shrine to St Ragener in the Saxon stone church that stood on this site.
The church was open for Heritage Weekend.
After standing in a queue of 5,000 americans for an hour and a half and climbing 320 stairs, we made it to the dome of St Peter's Basilica. Here's just one of Michelangelo's many ceiling mosaics. I like the colours.
This shot of Colette walking around the base of the St Peter's Fort outside Maastricht gives some perspective to it's size
St Peter Hungate sits in the attractive historical setting of Elm Hill, an enclave of tradition in the modern city. It is a largely 15th century cruciform building without aisles with a truncated west tower, now capped by a pyramid roof.
The church has been redundant since the 1930s, and was converted to use as a wonderful museum of medieval church art, displaying furnishings and artefacts from other redundant churches, complemented by this beautiful and authentic setting. Sadly this museum was closed in the late 1990s during a reorganisation of local museum services. The contents were put into storage and the church left closed and empty.
This was the first time I'd been in after this change of status, having visited the museum on a couple of previous occaisions. The difference was immediately apparent, a stark empty interior where the former display cabinets had been. The only old furnishing remaining is the ancient font, though there are also many good fragments of late 15th century stained glass in the east window and the traceries of several others.
Since this last visit in 2006 the church has been revived in a similar role to it's days as a museum as the Hungate Centre for Medieval Art, focussing on the art of stained glass.
For more information on the church prior to this see Simon Knott's entry on his Norfolk Churches website below:-
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichpeterhungate/norwichpete...
Church of St Peter, Cambridge Street, Harrogate
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1149467
National Grid Reference: SE 30195 55345
Details
SE 3 55 SW, 14/64
CAMBRIDGE STREET, Church of St Peter
II
Circa 1871-6 by J H Hirst in Gothic style. Tower added circa 1926, built by Hymas to design of A A Gibson. 5-bay nave with aisles, transepts, 2-bay chancel and apsed sanctuary. Slated roof with coped gables. Rusticated gritstone ashlar with pedimented buttresses and parapets. 3-light aisle windows and 6-light west window with plate tracery. Trefoil lancet lights to sanctuary. Open wooden arch-braced roof. Gabled porch with double arched entrances. 3-stage tower at south west corner with 2-light belfry window with reticulated tracery.
Listing NGR: SE3019555345
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1149467
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St Peter, Harrogate, 1870-76, by JH Hirst. The church tower was not finished until 1926. In 2012 St Peter's underwent an ambitious £2.3m building development programme to create new meeting rooms and facilities to serve the needs of the community.
St Peter Mancroft, Norwich.
The 19th century tracery lights appear to have originally been by John Dixon. They are typical of his imitations of 15th century panels both in colour & design.
The main lights contain c16-c17 heraldic glass.
St Peter's at Monkwearmouth dates back to 674 when it was built as the church of a monastery founded by Benedict Biscop, simultaneously with his new monastic complex at nearby Jarrow with which it was joined. Both these monastic churches were the first in Britain to be glazed with coloured glass when Biscop ordered materials and glass-blowers from France, but nothing now remains of this aside from a few excavated pieces displayed in the church and elsewhere (though more survives in Jarrow).
Only the west wall of the nave and the porch survive from Biscop's church, the porch being extended into the present narrow tower by the end of the 10th century. The rest of the building was rebuilt and enlarged in the 13th and 14th centuries into roughly the form we see today, though there was a heavy restoration in 1875-6 when the north aisle and arcade were completely rebuilt. The foundations of the old monastic buildings have been marked out in the churchyard on the south side of the church.
St Peter's is well worth a visit for its historic significance, its rare Anglo Saxon facade and tower and an attractive interior with some good modern glass by Leonard Evetts and an interesting display about the history of the site. It is happily generally kept open and welcoming to visitors most days (entry via the north door).