Minster Church of St Peter ad Vincula, Church Tower - Stoke, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
N 53° 00.248 W 002° 10.897
30U E 554916 N 5873043
The Minster Church of St Peter ad Vincula is a Grade 11 listed building and has a Gothic style tower with pinnacles and traceried battlements.
Waymark Code: WMV7BX
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 03/08/2017
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The Minster Church of St. Peter Ad Vincula (St. Peter in Chains) was built in Stoke by Trubshaw and Johnson from 1826-1830 and renovated inside in 1888.
The City of Stoke-on-Trent has no Cathedral. However, St Peter ad Vincula is its historic and civic church. It was granted the status of a Minster in 2005 by the Bishop of Lichfield in recognition that Stoke Minster fulfills the ‘cathedral’ role in this city.
The name "Stoke" comes from an Old English word meaning "a place", signifying a holy place. A Saxon cross survives in the churchyard, suggesting that this was an ancient sacred site. The first wooden Church was replaced in the year 805. Early 19th Century illustrations of Stoke Old Church show a stone-built structure which mostly dates from the 13th Century, with the addition of a 14th Century tower.
By the 1820's Stoke Church was no longer large enough to accommodate its growing congregation. In 1826 the foundations were laid for the present Church, to be finally consecrated in 1830. (
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The west tower has polygonal angle buttresses forming pinnacles to a parapet which also has blank traceried battlements. There is a three light window with transom over the clock and paired lights to the bell chamber. The door is in a flat porch against the south wall. (
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The west tower has a ring of 10 bells, all of which John Taylor & Co of Loughborough recast in 1971. (
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There are 104 valid peals for Stoke upon Trent, St. Peter ad Vincula: (
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