Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041557
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1041557
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hackleton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 78842 55679
Details
HACKLETON PRESTON DEANERY SP75NE 4/121 Church of St. Peter and St. 03/05/68 Paul
- II*
Church. C12, repaired c.1622; chancel repaired and altered 1808 and again in 1854 by E.F. Law. Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings; slate roofs. Chancel, nave and west tower. Chancel has 3-light east window with C19 Perpendicular tracery, set in larger round-arched opening with keyblock. Datestone above inscribed "CN/1808". Blocked chamfered Tudor-arched door to north and 2-light chamfered stone mullion window to north-west at high level with hood mould. South side of chancel has central 3-light arched mullion window with hood mould, blocked pointed arched window immediately to right, blocked 1-light low-side window to far left with pointed trefoil-headed light and transom, and blocked chamfered priest's door with round-arched head. Nave has 4-light arched mullion window to north with hood mould, chamfered Tudor-arched south door with hood mould flanked by similar 2-light windows, all probably dating from C17 repairs. Tower has pilaster buttresses to middle of each side. Blocked door to left of buttress to north with round-arched head and pointed trefoil-headed piscina to far left. Small round-arched windows to middle stage and 2-light bell-chamber openings with quatrefoils to heads except for east side which has original 1-light round-arched openings either side of buttress. Battlemented parapet. Off-set buttresses flank east window and chancel has chamfered stone eaves. Interior: chancel has simple sedilia, piscina and aumbry. Unmoulded round-headed chancel arch with carved imposts. Tall narrow round-headed tower arch with moulded imposts, with similar wider inner arch. Font is inset in north pier of tower arch and has polygonal stem and bowl. 2 hatchments, oil on canvas. Brass to Clement Edmonds, d.1622 and his wife Mary. Standing wall monument signed H. Cox to Elizabeth wife of Purbeck Langham who died 1736. Plinth has plain pilasters to angles. Inscription is flanked by fluted Doric pilasters bearing triglyph frieze and broken pediment flanked by lamp finials and framing gadrooned urn with cartouche of arms to base and gilded flame finial. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p379; VCH: Northamptonshire: Vol IV, 1937, p281)
Listing NGR: SP7884255679
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235521
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1937), 281
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 379
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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