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Client	The Parochial Church Council
Location	Blackley, Manchester
Status	Grade II* listed
Summary	Re-roofing and rot repair works, tower repairs, and designs for re-ordering
Completion	December 2006
Build Value	in excess of £800,000 to date

St Peter's Church, Blackley was built in 1844 to the designs of E. H. Shellard. The church, constructed in the Early English style, is a good example of Shellard's work and is particularly noteworthy for its interior which remains almost entirely as it was built.

Pevsner describes the building:

"St Peter, Old Market Street , Blackley. The village centre was here. A Commissioners' church (£3,162). 1844 by E H Shellard, and still pre-Puginist. w tower with EE bell-openings, the sides with twin lancets and buttresses. Short chancel. aisled interior, quatrefoil piers, three galleries, and Gothic box pews."

Shellard's building is the third on the site, the earlier churches being dated mid 16th century and 1736. It is quite likely that some of the internal fittings of the church hail from these earlier buildings. At the west end is a square tower that houses the four faced village clock and an original peel of tubular bells – unfortunately now disused.

Lloyd Evans Prichard have undertaken three phases of work at the church since our appointment as church architects – Phase 1 works concentrated on the nave including re-roofing and internal repairs; Phase 2 works were to re-roof the chancel, vestry and organ loft; Phase 3 to repair the tower.

We are also involved with the potential reordering of the churches interior as well as a large-scale refurbishment to the church grounds owned in part by the City Council.