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The area in Wolverhampton where the town was founded by Lady Wulfrun in Anglo-Saxon times.

St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton stands in the middle.

St Peter's Gardens - it is like a memorial garden, entered via Lichfield Street.

The church is Grade I listed.

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   WOLVERHAMPTON

   SO9198NW LICH GATES
   895-1/11/248 (East side)
   16/07/49 Church of St Peter

   GV I

   Church. Late C13 crossing and south transept; late C15 nave,
   tower and north transept; chancel and restoration, 1852-65, by
   E.Christian. Ashlar with lead roofs. Cruciform plan: 4-bay
   apsed chancel, crossing tower and 6-bay aisled nave, 2-storey
   south porch and 2-storey vestry to north. 4-bay chancel and
   7-bay apse, in Decorated style, articulated by offset
   buttresses with crocketed gables and gargoyles to cornice
   below openwork parapet, has 2-light windows to apse and
   3-light windows with flowing tracery to chancel. 3-stage tower
   has north-east stair turret, panels with quinquefoil heads and
   quatrefoil friezes and embattled parapet with crocketed
   pinnacles; 2-light windows to 2nd stage, paired 2-light bell
   openings to top stage. North transept has offset buttresses,
   embattled parapet and C17 round-headed windows to north and
   east with large central mullion. South transept has angle
   buttresses and embattled parapet, 5-light east window, and
   3-light south window with 3 two-light square-headed transomed
   clerestory windows above and 2 to west, all with Perpendicular
   tracery. North aisle has 3-light windows with segmental-
   pointed heads and Perpendicular tracery between buttresses,
   embattled parapet. South aisle similar, with 4-light windows.
   Vestry has embattled parapet and varied square-headed windows
   of one, 2 or 3 lights. 2-storey porch has angle buttresses and
   panelled embattled parapet with pinnacles, entrance with
   moulded arch, sundial above, 2-light square-headed window to
   1st floor. West facade has entrance of 2 orders under
   crocketed ogee hood, enriched cornice and 4-light Decorated
   window also under crocketed ogee hood; panelled buttresses and
   gabled aisles, 3-light window to north and 4-light window to
   south. Clerestory has paired Perpendicular 2-light
   square-headed transomed windows and panelled embattled
   parapet.
   INTERIOR: vaulted ceiling to apse with angel and square
   foliate capitals to shafts and angels to cornice; hammer-beam
   roof to chancel has angel corbels with angels to brattished
   cornice; crossing has C17 beams to late C19 painted ceiling;
   transepts have late C15 moulded tie-beam roofs; 5-bay
   Perpendicular nave arcades on octagonal piers, and C15 nave
   roof with carved spandrels to moulded tie beams, panelled
   ceiling with bosses. Fittings: chancel stalls have traceried
   fronts and angel finials; crossing has C19 timber screen to
   north, similar to C15 screen to south with open tracery and
   C15 shafts supporting brattished cornice; north transept has
   C19 Decorated style screen; screen to south transept has C15
   shafts and blind tracery panels below open-work upper panels,
   C19 brattished cornice; nave has C15 panelled stone pulpit on
   shaft with stair winding round pier and parapet with crouching
   lion to foot; late C17 west gallery, much altered; late C19
   two-stage internal timber porch in Decorated style with
   openwork tracery and figures under crocketed canopies. Some
   C15 stalls from Lilleshall Abbey. Memorials: north transept:
   chest tomb to Thomas Lane d.1582, carved balusters and figures
   and armorial bearings to sides, 2 finely carved recumbent
   effigies; wall monument to John Lane d.1667, a distinguished
   soldier instrumental in the rescue of Charles II, is in marble
   and alabaster and has inscribed panel in Ionic aedicule with
   garlanded scrolls and heraldic cartouche in swan-necked
   pediment flanked by cannon, and projecting base has finely
   carved trophy of arms with crown in oak tree to left; south
   transept has bronze figure and cherubs from monument to
   Admiral Leveson, c1635, by Le Seur, and chest tomb to John
   Leveson d.1575 and wife, with spiral corner balusters, figures
   and armorial shields to sides, finely carved recumbent
   effigies; north aisle has wall tablet to Henry Bracegirdle
   d.1702, inscribed panel in Doric aedicule, painted board to
   William Walker d.1634 and other C19/early C20 wall tablets
   including George Thorneycroft d.1851 and South African war
   memorial. Stained glass by C.E.Kempe to south aisle and good
   east window to south transept.
   (The Buildings of England: N.Pevsner: Staffordshire: London:
   1974-: 314-5).

   Listing NGR: SO9141698792

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Source: English Heritage