Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024347
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1024347
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whatcote
- National Grid Reference:
- SP2987744530
Details
WHATCOTE
SP2944
9/165 Church of St. Peter
13/10/66 (Formerly listed as Parish
Church of St. Peter)
GV II*
Church. C12-C14. Restorations 1820. Repairs c.1940. Ashlar and coursed ironstone
rubble. Ironstone banded with limestone at east end. Tile and slate roofs. Stone
coped gables with ball finials. Chancel, nave, west tower, south porch. Chancel
has 3-light east window with intersecting tracery, a pointed arched doorway with
plank; door on south, to left a square headed Perpendicular window. To right a
2-light Perpendicular window with hood mould and label stops. North side of
nave: Romanesque north doorway has billet and cable mouldings. Blocked entrance.
2 tall round headed Romanesque windows and a square headed window. South side of
nave: 2 lancets and a 2-light window with Y tracery with cusped head and hood
mould. Renewed Y traceried window to left of gabled porch. Pointed arched south
doorway has chamfered jambs and plank door. West tower: C13 2 stages divided by
string courses. Windows include lancets, cinquefoiled pointed lights and
trefoiled ogee headed lights. Embattled parapet. Interior: chancel has barrel
roof with tie beams. C19 nave roof. C18 altar rails. C18 pulpit. 3 benches with
Perpendicular ends. Circular stone font. C18 memorials in chancel to Mary
Seagrove, John Seagrove and Martha Drake.
(Buildings of England: Warwickshire, 1981, p.470, V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol. V,
1949, pp.203-4).
Listing NGR: SP2987744530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305928
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1949), 203-4
Pevsner, N, Wedgewood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1981), 470
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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