Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1088473
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1088473
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Willersey
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 10700 39661
Details
SP 1039-1139 WILLERSEY CHURCH STREET (north side)
14/163 Church of St. Peter 25.8.60
I
Anglican Parish Church, C12 nave with blocked S doorway. C13 N porch. N aisle rebuilt C13. C15 tower. C19 vestry and restoration. Nave and N aisle: coursed and squared limestone, with angle buttresses and a racking buttress on the N. Transepts: coursed, squared and dressed limestone. Chancel: coursed limestone rubble with some ashlar blocks incorporated in the lower courses. Vestry: ashlar limestone. Tower: ashlar limestone with diagonal buttresses. Limestone slate roof with slightly stepped gable coping and decorative upright cross finials. Plan: N aisle entered via N porch; nave; crossing; N and S transepts; chancel with vestry on S side. Nave: 3-light it window with Perpendicular tracery and hood with stops. Pointed, blocked doorway to left. Blocked Norman doorway in S wall with plain semi-circular tympanum supported on moulded imposts. C13 porch with pointed, flat- chamfered arch with hood. N transept: single light in W wall with trefoil head and hood with stops in the form of heads. 3-light N window with Perpendicular tracery and C19 hood also stops in the form of heads. 2-light E window with ogee cusping and trefoil over. Chancel: two C19 2-light windows in N wall, single similar window in N wall. E window: C19 triple lancet with hood reflecting the line of the tops of the lights. Vestry attached to S wall of chancel has single lights with trefoil heads. Flight of stone steps between S transept and vestry up to small plank door giving access to multi angular corner turret giving access to tower, S transept: C19, 2-light E window with quatrefoil, C19 2- light S window with vesica. Single light W window with decorated tracery: vesica flanked by 2 mouchettes, All windows have diamond leaded panes. Perpendicular tower of 2 stages. String just above top of buttresses, another string course with gargoyles at the 4 corners just below embattlemented parapet with 4 pinnacles. Four 2-light belfry windows with quatrefoils and limestone slate louvres. Interior: N door leads into narrow lean to aisle with a two bay arcade with a third bay cut off by the insertion of the central tower. The arcade has pointed chamfered arches on octagonal piers with shallow capitals and moulded abaci. Large indentation at W end of N aisle above floor height. Outline of blocked doorway also in W wall to nave. Inlet for blocked S doorway opposite the N door. Nave has a C19 timber arch braced roof. Similar roofs in N and S transepts. Braces supported on projecting hammer beams themselves supported on decorated stone corbels. Crossing bounded by 4 pointed compound arches each of five orders. Angel projects from each capital. Fanvault above 1859 with decorative bosses. S transept. S wall: C14 piscina with ogee head and credence shelf Geometric coloured tiles form floor of crossing and aisles in the nave and S transept. N transept and chancel have limestone flag flooring. Chancel has C19 roof as in nave and transepts but with cusped braces supported on decorative corbels Fragments of medieval stained glass in W window depicting two figures and 2 stags. Some fragments in the E window of the N transept also. C19 stained glass in the W wall of the S transept. Furniture: Norman tub shaped font on modern pillar and plinth, in N transept. C19 pews and pulpit. Monuments: C19 stone tablet with gold lettering on blocking of S doorway. Royal arms of George III, right. Chancel: two C19 marble tablets and one marble monument in the form of a sarcophagus on the left wall. Three C18 ledger stones in floor of sanctuary. History: the building of the chancel, transepts and tower are thought to be associated with the Abbots of Evesham who are reputed to have used Willersey Manor as a summer residence. The pillars supporting the tower and vault are copies of the pillars of Evesham Abbey, which were destroyed in the Reformation. (David Verey, The Buildings of England: The Cotswolds, 1979).
Listing NGR: SP1070139661
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 127079
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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