Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1099882
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- 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:
- 1099882
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- 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.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dormington
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 58320 40196
Details
DORMINGTON CP DORMINGTON SO 54 SE 2/14 Church of St Peter 26.1.67 GV II* Parish church. Late C13 substantially restored 1877 by Blashill. Coursed and dressed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, tiled roofs, shingle to bell-turret. Nave, south porch, chancel and north vestry. Three-bay nave with raised verges and three stepped buttresses, two lights with cusped heads to right of gabled porch, bell-turret to west with small broach spire and simple lucarnes, panel with row of cinquefoil shaped vents below spire; two-bay chancel with raised verge and two pairs of trefoil-headed lights. Interior: trussed rafter roof possibly retaining some C17 members. Chancel arch of two chamfered orders with heavy imposts and chamfered responds. Font, possibly C13, circular stem on square base, circular bowl with moulded rim and necking. Monuments: south wall of nave wall monument commemorating Margaret Carpender, died 1666, stone, broken pedi- ment supported by draped allegorical figures; north wall of nave, wall monument commemorating John Brydges, died 1668, stone open scrolled pediment supported on twisted columns, drapery and garland below. The Norman door knocker and the wall painting on the west wall mentioned by Pevsner and the RCHM are now absent. (RCHM Vol II, p 70-71; BoE, p 115).
Listing NGR: SO5832040196
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 154869
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 115
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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