Church of St Peter, Woolley

Heritage listing

Details SE31SW WOOLLEY CHURCH STREET (east side) 4/112 Church of St. Peter 22.11.66 GV I Church. Mainly C15 with south-aisle added C16, restored c1870. Large well- coursed dressed stone, C20 Bradstone roof. Perpendicular. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, north and south chancel chapels. 2-stage embattled tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets. Chamfered plinth, moulded band. West doorway with double-channelled surround has hoodmould. 3-light west window above with cusped lights and panel tracery; on south face 4 arrow-slits one above the other to light stair. 2-light belfry openings have cusped lights with quatrefoil over to each face; clock face set under to north. Projecting rainwater spouts at base of parapet with corner and central crocketted pinnacles. 4-bay nave and aisles has diagonal buttresses. North aisle has each bay articulated by offset buttresses, 2nd bay blind other bays have 3-light windows with double-chamfered surrounds, square heads and cusped lights; sides (west end) have same windows and coped lean-to roofs. South aisle, largely rebuilt c1870, has 2-light window to left of C15 porch in 2nd bay: segmental-pointed doorway of 2 orders with small niche over; diagonal buttresses and coped gable restored c1870. Interior of porch has fine oak king-post roof with boarded ceiling and moulded rafters and ridge, bratished wall plate. Inner doorway recut. Windows have round-headed lights with sunken spandrels. Coped division between nave and chancel continues to form offset buttress to chancel chapels which break forward: 2 bays to south, 3 bays to north, both with 3-light windows. Priest's door with round head to south and pointed arch to north. Lean-to roofs. East end has shallow-arched 3-light windows to chapels either side

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.