Church of St Peter

CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1082544
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1082544
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1959
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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Pudlestone
National Grid Reference:
SO 56529 59765

Details

PUDLESTONE CP SO 55 NE 10/55 Church of St Peter 11.6.59 II*

Parish church. Tower built c1200, C13 chancel, nave and north aisle rebuilt in 1813, south aisle added in 1850, chancel restored in 1857, late C19 north vestry and south porch. Sandstone rubble with dressings of the same material, part tiled and part stone slate roofs, shingle to spire. West tower, nave with north and south aisles and south porch, chancel with north vestry. West tower: three stages with spire rising from pyramidal roof, C13 lancet window to north and south of ground stage, C12 semi-circular headed west doorway, jambs of two plain orders, moulded and enriched imposts and arch of two orders; inner plain and outer with chevron ornament; restored tympanum, lancet windows to north and south of second stage and two lancets to each side of the bell stage. Nave: south aisle, two 2-light C19 windows to right of C19 porch and doorway, two similar C19 windows flank central single-light window to north aisle. Chancel: restored 2-light C14 window to south to right of two C13 lancets, one of which is reset in an earlier doorway, the C19 north vestry has one 2-light window and a doorway. East window of 1857 designed by Henry Woodyer of three lights with tracery and panel of blank tracery below. Interior: C14 tower arch, plain jambs and chamfered segmental arch, curious arched recess above the tower arch with lancet set within it. The C19 north and south aisles have arcades of three bays. The chancel retains C19 fittings with panelled screen and decorative ceiling. (RCHM, Vol 3, p 169; BoE, p 273).

Listing NGR: SO5652959765

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
150545
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire III North West, (1934), 169
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 273

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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