Building record 1875/1 - Church of St Peter

Church of St Peter, Long Lane, Hargrave. Was chapel & school, now ch. 1627,bell turret & vestry added & restored 1877.Ashlar red sandstone, red tile roof.5-bay nave & chancel in 1 range, S porch & vestry. Diagonal buttresses at corners & bays of nave divided by stepped buttresses. Stone copings & finials. Stone mullioned windows. Porch projects under coped & finialled gable. Massive chamfered lintel over restored studded oak board door with planted strap hinges. Above in cyma-moulded surround arms & plaque record building of chapel 1627 by Thomas Moulson, born at Hargrave & became Lord Mayor of London. Right end is priest's door in chamfered surround. Blocked mullioned & transomed window. Internal: Simple but with hammerbeam roof sprung from stone corbels, with carved console & pendant. Wind braced purlins. Arch description(1).Erected & endowed by Thomas Moulson, Lord Mayor of London 1627.Set up as combined chapel & school.1812 school & chapel taken down & whole of chapel used for worship (2) & (3).

<1> Department of the Environment, 1971-2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, /2/3 (Report). SCH1934.

<2> Ormerod, G., 1882, The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, Ormerod G 1882 2/805-6 (Book). SCH1389.

<3> Richards R, 1947, Old Cheshire Churches, Richards R 1947 /178-80 (Book). SCH2309.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ46SE5 1986 (Index). SCH2487.