St. Peter's Church, Ruddington

Heritage listing

Details SK 53 SE RUDDINGTON CHURCH STREET (north side) 5/102 Church of St. Peter G.V. II Parish church. Medieval, rebuilt apart from part of the tower 1887-8 by Bell and Roper of Manchester. Rock face ashlar and ashlar. Plain tile roofs. Coped gables with single ridge crosses to the east nave and east chancel. Single stack to the south chancel. Buttressed and set on a chamfered plinth. North west tower, nave, west porch, aisles, south porch with stair turret, south vestry with porch and stair turret, north organ chamber and chancel. Tower set on a chamfered plinth with moulded band over of 2 stages and embattled with corbel table and spire with 4 lucarnes. The west side has a single window with 2 cinqeufoil arched lights under a flat arch. Above is a single trefoil arched light with a single 2 light window above with cusped tracery under a flat arch. There is a single similar 2 light window on the north side with a single rectangular stair ight below, the east side having the remains of a single similar 2 light window. Each side of the bell chamber has a single pair of panels, each with 2 cinquefoil, blind arches, over extends a band of fleuron and over a single pair of 2 light arched openings with cusped tracery. Over on the east and south sides are single clock faces. The gabled west chancel has blind cinquefoil arched panels over the buttresses. Shallow lean-to porch. Entrance with chamfered jambs and moulded pointed arch, hood mould and label stops. The spandrels decorated with single shields. Brattishing over. Inner pair of segmental arched doorways divided by a single colonette with fillet and decorative capital supporting a carved figure set into a cinqeufoil arched niche and flanked by single decorative quatrefoils. Over the porch is a single large 5 light windo

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.