St Peter's Church, Parr
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St Peter's Church, Parr, from the south
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 St Peter's Church, Parr
Location in Merseyside
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| Coordinates: 53°27′14″N 2°42′03″W / 53.4540°N 2.7009°W | |
| OS grid reference | SJ 536 955 |
| Location | Broad Oak Road, Parr, St Helens, Merseyside |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Website | St Peter, Parr |
| History | |
| Dedication | Saint Peter |
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| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade II |
| Designated | 23 August 1985 |
| Architect(s) | J. Medland Taylor |
| Architectural type | Church |
| Style | Gothic Revival |
| Groundbreaking | 1864 |
| Completed | 1865 |
| Construction cost | £2,600 |
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| Materials | Sandstone and copper slag, slate roofs |
| Administration | |
| Parish | St Peter, Parr |
| Deanery | St Helens |
| Archdeaconry | Warrington |
| Diocese | Liverpool |
| Province | York |
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| Vicar(s) | Revd Neil McCathie |
St Peter's Church, Parr, is in Broad Oak Road, Parr, St Helens, Merseyside, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of St Helens, the archdeaconry of Warrington and the diocese of Liverpool. Its benefice is combined with those of three local churches to form the Parr Team Ministry. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
St Peter's replaced an earlier church nearby that was burnt down in 1860. It was designed by J. Medland Taylor, and built in 1864–65. The church cost £2,600.
The walls of the church are built in a mixture of red and yellow sandstone and industrial waste in the form of copper slag, and the roofs are slated. Its plan consists of a nave, north and south aisles under catslide roofs, a double south transept, a chancel with a canted east end, a south vestry and a north organ loft (both under catslide roofs), and a tower with a broach spire at the southwest corner. The tower has a south entrance with a pointed tympanum containing a quatrefoil and crossed keys. It has corner buttresses, lancet windows, and paired bell openings. At the top are squat pyramidal pinnacles, and a broach spire surmounted by a weathervane. The window at the west end of the church has two lights and contains plate tracery. Along the wall of the south aisle are triple lancets with roundels above. On the north side the windows are either triple lancets, or double lancets with roundels. The transept is in two bays, each containing a triple lancet over which is a rose window. In the chancel are three windows, each of two lights containing plate tracery.
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