St. Peter and St. Paul and St. Elizabeth

Introduction

Saint Peter and Saint Paul and Saint Elizabeth in Alcester is a Grade II* listed building, first listed on 11-Dec-1969. The church was built for the Throckmorton family in 1853. The church was designed by Charles Hansom in 1851.

Architecture and furnishings

The church is described as a good, little altered example of a C19 Catholic Church. The church is built of regular coursed limestone with a tile roof with crested ridge tiles and coped gables. The church has a wide nave, chancel and north chapel, south-west turret and south porch. The church is Gothic Revival in the Decorated style.

The west front has arched double-leaf doors with hood mould and stops. The church has 3-light traceried east and west windows, with hood mould and head stops. The tall thin south-west turret starts square but turns octagonal, with trefoil openings, gargoyles and a pyramidal roof. The south porch has coped gables and buttresses flush with the front, with an arch with hood mould and head stops.

The nave has 2-light traceried windows throughout. A single-storey link to the priest's house has a tall central gable, shouldered door and casements. The interior has plastered walls throughout. The nave has a scissor brace roof.

The chancel arch is without imposts. The chancel has a panelled wagon roof with good painted and stencilled decoration. The church has a carved stone altar and reredos. The 2-bay arcade to the chapel has a round shaft.

The church has a stone pulpit and font with relief carvings; the font rests on 5 colonettes. Some original stained glass in the nave, chapel east window, and chancel east window is attributed to Hardman. The church has a north porch in the angle of stone, timber and glass. The church has a double-chamfered arched south doorway with double-leaf doors.