St Peter's Church, Bournemouth

St Peter's Church, Bournemouth
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50°43′14″N 1°52′32″W / 50.7205°N 1.8755°W / 50.7205; -1.8755
DenominationChurch of England
ChurchmanshipLiberal Catholic
Websitestpetersbournemouth.org.uk
History
StatusParish Church
DedicationSaint Peter
Architecture
Architect(s)G. E. Street
StyleGothic Revival
Completed1879
Specifications
HeightSpire 202 feet (62 m)
Floor area12,658 square feet (1,176.0 m2)
MaterialsPurbeck stone with Bath stone dressings
Administration
ProvinceCanterbury
DioceseWinchester
ArchdeaconryBournemouth
DeaneryBournemouth
ParishBournemouth
Clergy
Rectorinterregnum
Laity
Organist/Director of musicDuncan Courts
Organist(s)Neil Sissons
Churchwarden(s)Jane MacDonald-Styslinger, Chris Mayne
Parish administratorLisa 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.

  1. ^ Jenkins, Simon, 'England's Thousand Best Churches', Allen Lane, 1999, p. 148.