Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1041190
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1041190
- Date first listed:
- 04-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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 AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chacombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 49074 43947
Details
CHACOMBE CHURCH LANE SP4943 (North side) 10/63 Church of St. Peter and St. 04/02/69 Paul - I
Church. Early C14. Probably all one build. Squared coursed limestone and ironstone, slate and lead roofs. Chancel, nave with clerestory and south porch; west tower. East chancel window, Decorated style of 3 lights, reticulated tracery (renewed); windows in north and south walls also Decorated, all of 2 lights with flowing tracery (renewed). Priests doorway in south wall. East window of south aisle C14 of three lights with 4-centred head. West window similar but tracery renewed. South windows all Decorated of 2 lights with flowing tracery. Window west of porch renewed C20. South porch and south doorway Decorated. Studded ribbed plank door with decorative ironwork, probably medieval. C14 west tower, of 3 stages with castellated parapet. C14 on window ground stage similar to east and west arcades in south aisle. North aisle has 2-light Decorated windows in south and west walls and plain 2-light square-headed window at north-east corner. East window is Victorian. Blocked C16-C17 doorway with 4-centred arch and square hood in west wall. Interior: C14 piscina recess with trefoiled head in chancel. North and south arcades each of 3 bays with double chamfered arches and octagonal piers with quatrefoil capitals. Font, Romanesque; circular carved with blind arcade of intersecting arches. Brass to Michael Fox, died 1569 but made c.1545. Representation of 'The Trinity' with heraldic shields. Wall painting in jamb of north-east window north aisle, C14. Crucifixion of St. Peter. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p. 146).
Listing NGR: SP4907443947
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 234335
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1961), 146
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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