St Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne

St Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne
The Church of St Peter from the southeast
St Peter's Church, Ashton-under-Lyne Location in Greater Manchester
Coordinates: 53°29′02″N 2°06′21″W / 53.4840°N 2.1058°W / 53.4840; -2.1058
OS grid reference	SJ 931 986
Location	Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
Country	UK
Denomination	Anglican
Churchmanship	Open evangelical
Website	St Peter, Ashton-under-Lyne
History
Dedication	Saint Peter
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II*
Designated	12 January 1967
Architect(s)	Francis Goodwin
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Groundbreaking	1821
Completed	1824
Specifications
Materials	Stone, slate roof
Administration
Parish	The Good Shepherd, Ashton-under-Lyne
Deanery	Ashton-under-Lyne
Archdeaconry	Rochdale
Diocese	Manchester
Province	York
Clergy
Bishop(s)	Rt Revd Dr David Walker
Vicar(s)	Revd Josie Partridge

St Peter's Church is in Manchester Road, Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ashton-under-Lyne, the archdeaconry of Rochdale, and the diocese of Manchester.

With four other local churches, it is part of the Parish of the Good Shepherd, Ashton-under-Lyne. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. It is a Commissioners' Church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission. The authors of the Buildings of England series consider it to be a "large and ambitious" church. In the National Heritage List for England it is described as a "particularly imposing and elaborate example of a Commissioners' Church".

St Peter's was built between 1821 and 1824, and was designed by Francis Goodwin. A grant of £13,191 (equivalent to £1,050,000 in 2015) was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission. The land for the church was given by the patron of the advowson, George 6th Earl of Stamford and Warrington, whose cousin, Revd Sir George Booth, had been Rector of Ashton from 1758 until 1797. It was the first of three churches designed by Goodwin for the Commission in the Manchester area. In 1840 a clock was installed with its face at the east end, the mechanism at the west end, and connected by a drive shaft running the length of the church. During the latter part of the 20th century, the west end was divided under the gallery.