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St. Peter & St. Paul Catholic Church in Wolverhampton - it is on Paternoster Row and North Street.

Built 1825. Consecrated 1865.

The church is Grade II* listed.

<a href="http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-378502-catholic-church-of-st-peter-and-st-paul-" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Catholic Church of St Peter and St Paul, Wolverhampton</a>

   WOLVERHAMPTON

   SO9198NW NORTH STREET
   895-1/11/272 (West side)
   16/07/49 Catholic Church of St Peter and St
   Paul
   (Formerly Listed as:
   Roman Catholic Church of St Peter
   and St Paul)

   GV II*

   Formerly known as: Catholic Church of St Mary and St John.
   Catholic church. Sanctuary and transepts part of Giffard House
   (q.v.) adapted from chapel; nave, 1826-8, by J.Ireland; south
   chapel and sacristy, 1901, by E. Goldie; north chapel, c1920.
   Stucco with ashlar dressings, parapeted roof. Greek Revival
   style influenced by J.Soane. 4-bay nave to west and south
   chapel to south of Giffard House. (q.v.). Re-entrant 2-storey,
   3x3-bay sacristy and south porch; north chapel to north of
   Giffard House. Nave has paired flat and angle pilasters to
   angles, entablature and clerestory with pilaster strips and
   cornice with blocking course; west window with battered
   architrave, frieze and cornice, small-paned fixed glazing,
   similar blind window to 2nd bay of south elevation; clerestory
   has lunettes with archivolts, that to west blind; porch has
   angle pilasters, entablature and coped parapet with statues of
   SS Peter and Paul; north elevation has altar with incised
   cross. South transept has similar treatment, south window has
   panelled sill and stained glass. Sacristy is similar, with
   12-pane horned sashes. Iron area railings and 2 panelled
   piers. North chapel is plain, of brick with tile roof and
   skylight, round-headed windows.
   INTERIOR: flat pilasters with honeysuckle capitals and tunnel
   vault with coffered ribs between roses, west gallery with
   organ. 4 paintings of Evangelists in architraves, late C18,
   Italian School; wall memorial brasses of kneeling figures and
   large brass to Bishop John Milner (d.1826), probably by Augustus Welby
   Northmore Pugin. Altar apse has former high altar moved
   from sanctuary 1989, late C19, multi-coloured marble with
   tabernacle and throne. Sanctuary has coffered dome with
   entablature on pendentives and lantern with incised pattern;
   altar apse.
   South chapel has dome on Ionic columns with lantern; altar
   recess has coffered vault, rich sarcophagus altar with wood
   reredos with twisted pilasters, swan-necked pediment and shell
   vault; altarpiece moved here, 1901; marble altar rail with
   wrought-iron gates, from high altar; crucifix in rich
   wrought-iron setting to west. North chapel has 3-bay Tuscan
   arcade, tunnel vault and saucer dome to east end which has
   relief figures; 3 windows have stained glass, probably parts
   of C14 or C15 Jesse window (or could be early C19 work based
   on window in St Mary's, Shrewsbury). An important early
   post-Reformation Catholic church with connections with Bishop
   Milner, who was an important figure in the era of Catholic
   emancipation and is buried in the crypt; the interior is one
   of Ireland's best works. The church forms an integral unit
   with Giffard House.
   (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
   P.316; Robinson JM: Report on the Church of St Peter and St
   Paul: 1979-).

   Listing NGR: SO9125798890

This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage