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Giffard House – St. Peter & St. Paul Catholic Church – Wolverhampton
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St. Peter & St. Paul Catholic Church in Wolverhampton – it is on Paternoster Row and North Street.
Giffard House on North Street.
It’s Grade II* listed.
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO9198NW NORTH STREET
895-1/11/273 (West side)
16/07/49 Giffard House (Presbytery of Church
of SS Peter and Paul (q.v.)
(Formerly Listed as:
NORTH STREET
(West side)
Presbytery of Roman Catholic Church
of St Peter and St Paul (Giffard
House))
GV II*
Shown on O.S. map as Presbytery.
Presbytery and chapel, the chapel and rest of west part of
building now part of Church of St Peter and St Paul (q.v.),
1727-9. By F.Smith of Warwick for Catholic church, but in name
of P.Giffard. Brick with stone dressings; hipped tile roof
with flat centre and brick stacks. Double-depth plan. Early
Georgian style. 3 storeys; 5-window range with top cornice and
quoins. Windows have brick segmental arches with
fielded-panelled keys and horned sashes with moulded frames,
of 15 panes to ground floor, 12 panes to 1st floor and 9 panes
to 2nd floor; those to centre bay have architraves and keys.
Central entrance has architrave, keystone and 6-pane
overlight, 4-fielded-panel door with knocker. 2 large stacks;
2 rainwater heads with monogram and date of 1728, and square
downspouts. Returns have attached chapels to church (q.v.),
with mid C20 housekeeper’s cottage to right.
INTERIOR has elaborate open string stair with 3 barleysugar
column-on-vase balusters to the tread and ramped handrail. The
house contains the earliest remaining post-Reformation public
urban chapel for Catholics, now forming the sanctuary of the
church, and was the home of Bishop John Milner, from 1804
until his death in 1826, an important figure in the Catholic
church of the early C19 who had an important role in the
passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829; he left
money for the building of the church, which became his
memorial and burial place.
(Shell County Guides: Thorold H: Staffordshire: London: 1978-:
P.186; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire:
London: 1974-: P.319; Rowlands M: Wolverhampton Millenium: The
Catholic Aspect: Wolverhampton: 1985-: P.10-12).
Listing NGR: SO9127198898
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
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
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