Church of St Peter and St Paul
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059595
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1059595
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake
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, Shiplake
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Shiplake
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 76746 78248
Details
SU77NE
10/152
SHIPLAKE
Church of St Peter and St Paul
GV
II*
Church. C13 with C15 alterations and restoration 1869 by G.E Street. Flint with stone dressings; plain tile roof. Aisled four bay nave, two bay chancel and west tower. Early English style.
Studded C19 door with timber-framed porch on stone base, with gabled tiled roof. C19 lancet window to left, buttress to end. C19 lancet to right, buttress, C19 paired lancet under common two-arched hood, buttress to right end. Chancel: two C19 two-light lancets with trefoil heads. Buttress between windows and to east end. East windows of south aisle, chancel and north aisle, are of three lancets. Rear; C19 vestry to left with two-light mullioned window to left and plank door to right. North aisle has three three-light lancets. Tower to right, of three floors; two centred arched door to ground floor, single window to first floor, bar tracery openings with louvres to second floor. Stone battlements to parapet. Left return front; three three-light windows of reticulated tracery. Nave aisles and chancel nave separate gabled roofs.
Interior: transitional arcades to nave; C13 piscina to south aisle; reset C16 brass on wall of south aisle. Monuments in chancel and south aisle. C15 glass from abbey church of Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer in France, in east windows of chancel and south aisle, and in south windows of chancel and south aisle, and west window of south isle. Font by G.E Street; rectangular basin supported on columns with foliated caps and stepped base. Sedilia, piscina and reredos to altar of chancel, and pews all by G.E Street.
Listing NGR: SU7674678248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 247174
- 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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