St Peter's Church, Oughtrington
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| location = Oughtrington, Lymm,
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| country = England
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| osgraw = SJ 694 872
| denomination = Anglican
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| website = https://www.oughtringtonchurch.co.uk
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| dedication = St Peter
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| consecrated date = 1872
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| status = Parish church
| functional status = Active
| heritage designation = Grade II
| designated date = 14 June 1984
| architect = Slater and Carpenter
| architectural type = Church
| style = Gothic Revival
| groundbreaking = 1871
| completed date = 1872
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| materials = Grey sandstone,
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| parish = St Peter, Oughtrington
| deanery = Bowdon
| archdeaconry = Macclesfield
| diocese = Chester
| province = York
| rector = Michael Burgess
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| reader = Sheila Thacker, Roy Bond
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| warden = Sheila Biddle, Alison Precious
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St Peter's Church is the parish church of Lymm in Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.{{NHLE |num= 1265847|desc= Church of St Peter, Lymm|access-date= 12 August 2012|mode=cs2}} It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Bowdon. Its benefice is combined with that of St Werburgh, Warburton.{{Citation | url = http://www.achurchnearyou.com/oughtrington-st-peter/ | title = St Peter, Oughtrington| access-date = 13 October 2009| publisher = Church of England}}
History
The church was built in 1871–72 at the expense of C. G. Dewhurst, the architects being Slater and Carpenter. Initially a chapel of ease in the parish of St Mary's Church, Lymm, it became a separate parish in 1881. In 1932 a Lady Chapel was created in the north aisle to celebrate the jubilee.{{citation |url=http://www.oughtrington.co.uk/stpeterschurch/ |title=The Parish Church of St Peter, Oughtrington |access-date=25 March 2008 |publisher=St Peter's, Oughtrington }}
Architecture
It is built in grey snecked rubble sandstone with grey slate roofs. Its plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, an apsidal chancel, a south vestry, a south porch and a northeast tower with a spire. At the west end is a rose window above four lancet windows. The tower has a square base over which is an octagonal belfry surrounded by pinnacles, and a stone spire. The authors of the Buildings of England series consider that the spire is too thin for such a substantial church and that the pinnacles are "unjustifiable".{{Citation | last = Hartwell | first = Clare |last2 = Hyde | first2 = Matthew |last3 = Hubbard | first3 = Edward | author3-link=Edward Hubbard (architectural historian) | last4 =Pevsner | first4 =Nikolaus | author4-link =Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title = Cheshire | publisher =Yale University Press| year =2011| orig-year=1971| location =New Haven and London| pages = 517–518| isbn =978-0-300-17043-6 }} The stained glass in the apse, dated 1894, and in one of the windows in the south aisle is by Kempe, and the stained glass in the windows at the west end, dated 1907, is by A. K. Nicholson.
External features
See also
{{Portal|Cheshire}}
References
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{{Churches in Cheshire}}
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Category:Churches completed in 1872
Category:Gothic Revival church buildings in England
Category:Gothic Revival architecture in Cheshire
Category:Church of England church buildings in Cheshire