St Peter's Church, Macclesfield

St Peter's Church, Macclesfield
St Peter's Church, Macclesfield, from the southeast
St Peter's Church, Macclesfield Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°15′12″N 2°07′04″W / 53.2534°N 2.1179°W / 53.2534; -2.1179
OS grid reference	SJ 922 729
Location	Windmill Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Peter, Macclesfield
History
Dedication	Saint Peter
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade II
Designated	28 October 1984
Architect(s)	Charles and James Trubshaw
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1849
Specifications
Materials	Stone, tile roofs
Administration
Parish	Macclesfield Team Parish
Deanery	Macclesfield
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	vacant
Laity
Reader(s)	Judith Gibson

St Peter's Church is in Windmill Street, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield, and the deanery of Macclesfield. It forms a team ministry with three other Macclesfield churches: St Michael, All Saints, and St Barnabas. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. It was a Commissioners' church, having received a grant towards its construction from the Church Building Commission.

St Peter's was built in 1849, and designed by Charles and James Trubshaw. It was planned to have a spire, but this was never built. A grant of £257 (equivalent to £20,000 in 2015) was given towards its construction by the Church Building Commission. The interior was re-ordered in 2005.

The church is constructed in rubble stone with tiled roofs. Its architectural style is Early English. The plan consists of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a chancel, a northeast vestry, and a southwest tower. The tower is in four stages with corner buttresses, and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. There are doors on the west and southwest sides, lancet windows in the second stage, circular clock faces in the third stage, and paired louvred bell openings in the top stage. Along the sides of the church the bays are divided by buttresses, each bay containing a lancet window. The clerestory contains gabled dormers. The east window in the chancel is a stepped triple lancet.