Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1048269
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-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:
- 1048269
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1966
- 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:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- Vale of White Horse (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47622 01382
Details
WOOTTON SP4701 15/151 Church of St. Peter 09/02/66 GV II Church. Early C14: restored C15, C18 and in 1932. Coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble: rendered west wall. Gabled old tile nave roof and stone slate chancel roof. Nave and chancel with north chapel and vestry. Early C14 two-light Decorated east window: corner buttresses. South side of chancel has C13 two-light Y-tracery window and splayed light: mid C18 north chapel has similar C13-style window. North side of nave has 2 medieval and 2 C19 buttresses flanking late C15 three-light cinquefoil-headed window. Late C19 north vestry has C15-style door and window. South side of nave: late C15 two- and 3-light cinquefoil-headed windows flank C17 porch which was rebuilt in 1932: segmental-arched ovolo-moulded porch and south doors. West gable has offset corner buttresses and C16 two-light window above late C15 three-light window with restored mullions. Interior: reredos by Sir Ninian Comper. Early C14 ogee-headed piscina. Chancel roof designed by Rev. S.E. Cottam (c.l932). C18 segmental chancel arch. Nave has C18 ledger stone in aisle, C19 pulpit, and memorial tablet to Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins d.1780: C18 candelabra. Medieval (probably C15) tiles relaid in porch floor. Stained glass: east window by Kempe commemorates Kate (d.1898) wife of Lord Berkeley who lived at Foxcombe Hall, Boars Hill. (Buildings of England: Berkshire, p.313; V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol.IV, p,403; Bodleian Library, MS Top Berks. C51 no.238 (early C19 drawing)).
Listing NGR: SP4762201382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 249828
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 313
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924), 403
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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