Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031214
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031214
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hepworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 98748 74854
Details
TL 97 SE HEPWORTH CHURCH LANE
3/4 Church of St. Peter 14.7.55
II*
Parish church. C13 and later: seriously damaged by fire in 1898, and extensively rebuilt by J.S. Corder of Ipswich. Nave, chancel, south porch and west tower, all in rubble flint, partly covered with old render. Plaintiled roofs. 2-light windows in Perpendicular style to nave; C14 windows in Decorated style to chancel; in the south wall, a traceried low-side window, and a 3-light east window with reticulated tracery. South porch, largely reconstructed, contains fragments of an earlier Norman church, and the open roof has some reused C16 moulded timbers. An empty niche with trefoil head above the south door. Plain tower with large diagonal buttresses, partly faced with panels of large black knapped flints. Plain parapet, with conical roof rising above it. Plain west doorway with hood mould over. A small quatrefoil window to each face of the middle stage, and a window with semi- circular arched head to each face of the top stage. Across the upper part of the west face is the date 1677 in large cast iron figures: this may well be the date of the top stage windows. The lower part of the tower and the western buttresses have been extensively tied together with ironwork: an entry in the Diary of Thomas King of Thelnetham records: 'Hepworth Steeple screwed together with irons by Mr. Bloomfield of Thelnetham, November 1828'. The interior fittings, including the double hammer-beam roof, date from the post- fire restoration of 1899. Beside the pulpit is the blocked door to the former rood stairs, and on the south wall of the nave the remains of a much-damaged piscina with cusped head. 6 C15 poppy-head bench ends survive in the chancel. The one outstanding feature of the church is the late C14 pinnacled font cover, octagonal, and 12ft 6 inches high. The ornate carving is unusual, and much-damaged, in 3 tiers, with a 3-tier pinnacle above; the lowest stage has a miniature building on each face, with windows and doorways in which little figures stand.
Listing NGR: TL9874874854
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 284267
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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