Church of St Peter
Church of St Peter, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1HQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034258
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1HQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034258
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jul-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1HQ
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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, High Street, Marlborough, SN8 1HQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Marlborough
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 18579 68793
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 February 2024 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
SU 1868
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HIGH STREET (west end)
Church of St Peter
(Formerly listed as Church of St Peter and St Paul, CENTRE ISLAND, HIGH STREET)
18.7.49.
II*
Mid or late C15. Ashlar. Nave and two aisles, north one with a canted west end, chancel, west tower, and porch. No clerestory. Aisle windows have three-light Perpendicular tracery, west window five-light Perpendicular tracery. Tower placed at west end of south aisle: three stages, crenellated parapet, octagonal turrets at corners capped by C18 pyramidal finials, windows in top stage with three-light Perpendicular tracery. Crenellated parapet to aisle and chancel roofs. Finials at east corners of chancel (probably C19). Doorway to porch with four-centred arch and square hood mould. Interior of porch tierceron vaulted.
Interior has tall Perpendicular arcade and C19 wooden. roof on stone angel corbels. Aisle roofs are also wooden, lean-to. Quadrant relieving arch abuts tower in south aisle. Chancel tierceron vaulted, and east wall rebuilt by T H Wyatt in 1862-3, giving it highly polychromed tiling in abstract patterns.
Good monuments, especially (in chancel) to three children of Sir Nicholas Hyde (1626), and to Marianne Maurice (1840) by Ternouth to designs of Chantrey. More Baroque tablets. Furnishings C19 replacing Georgian box pews. Cardinal Wolsey ordained priest here in 1498. Best church in Marlborough, remarkable for the vaulting and its site.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul forms a group Nos 42 to 64 (consec), and Nos 65 to 85 (consec), The Sun Public House and Nos 88 to 90 Consec.
Listing NGR: SU1855468692
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 310347
- 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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