ABOUT
ST PETERS WAVERTON
OUR TEAM
Our close-knit team have been dedicated to St Peter's Waverton for over 80 years combined service. We love our church, the community we serve and the building that has provided over 900 years of shelter in which to worship.
Revd. Julian Beauchamp
Rector
Peter Williams
Church Warden
Lorraine Booth
Church Warden
WHAT WE BELIEVE
Our faith is rooted in the Bible and expressed through the historic Creeds, the Book of Common Prayer, the 39 Articles of Religion, and the Ordinal. These guide how we worship, speak of God’s love, and live out the good news of Jesus Christ.
The Parish Church Council (PCC) is our church’s main decision-making group.
We meet about six times a year to share updates on worship, outreach, children’s work, and more, as well as to oversee the church’s life, administration, and building upkeep.
Our PCC includes clergy, churchwardens, and elected members (both PCC and Deanery Synod), with around 16 people in total.
PARISH CHURCH COUNCIL
HISTORY OF ST PETERS
In the ‘Charter of Confirmation’ in 1093 by Hugh Lupus, the 1st Earl of Chester, it is mentioned that Richard de Rullos gave the Church in Waverton as a grant to the Abbey of St. Werburghs (now Chester Cathedral). Waverton itself is listed in the Doomsday Book predating the Charter by several hundred years. It is therefore probable that an early Saxon church was built on the site of the present church between the completion of the Doomsday survey and this date. But being made of wood no physical evidence of it remains.
The church built after the Norman Conquest by Hugh Lupus and given to the Abbey in 1093 was of red sandstone from the nearby quarry. Today’s building is the result of a process of evolution over more than 900 years. There are still traces of Norman style architecture in the rude nail head ornament on the pillar at the west end of the South Aisle. The tower was erected about the time of Henry VII (1485-1509), and the roof is Elizabethan. It has timber framework with hammer beams, carried on corbels, one which is carved in the form of a Tudor rose. Two Tudor figures can be seen on the hammer beams near the east end of the nave. One beam bears the date 1635, but it is not clear to what this date actually refers.
Extensive repairs and renovations were carried out during the nineteenth century, resulting in the church we see today. They included the installation of a new west window in 1856, a new east window in 1868 and the construction of the pyramid-shape roof on top of the tower, allegedly ordered by the Duke of Westminster to enable him to clearly identify the church and hence his bearings, whilst out riding or hunting!