St Peter's Church, Bournemouth

St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
50°43′14″N 1°52′32″W / 50.7205°N 1.8755°W / 50.7205; -1.8755
Denomination	Church of England
Churchmanship	Liberal Catholic
Website	stpetersbournemouth.org.uk
History
Status	Parish Church
Dedication	Saint Peter
Architecture
Architect(s)	G. E. Street
Style	Gothic Revival
Completed	1879
Specifications
Height	Spire 202 feet (62 m)
Floor area	12,658 square feet (1,176.0 m2)
Materials	Purbeck stone with Bath stone dressings
Administration
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Winchester
Archdeaconry	Bournemouth
Deanery	Bournemouth
Parish	Bournemouth
Clergy
Rector	interregnum
Laity
Organist/Director of music	Duncan Courts
Organist(s)	Neil Sissons
Churchwarden(s)	Jane MacDonald-Styslinger, Chris Mayne
Parish administrator	Lisa Babb

St Peter's Church is a Church of England parish church located in the centre of Bournemouth, Dorset, England. It is a Grade I listed building classed as a 'major parish church', and was completed in 1879 to a design by George Edmund Street as the founding mother church of Bournemouth.

The building incorporates work by some of the finest Gothic Revival architects and artists, including Street, George Frederick Bodley, Ninian Comper, Arthur Blomfield and Edward Burne-Jones, with stained-glass windows and frescoes by Clayton and Bell. The chancel has been described as 'one of the richest Gothic Revival interiors in England'.^[1] The 202-foot (62 m)-high spire is a landmark in Bournemouth Town Centre, where it is the town centre parish church, together with the churches of St Stephen and St Augustine.

Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, is interred here, reputedly along with the heart of her husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.