CHURCH OF ST PETER
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1100872
Date first listed: 03-Oct-1985
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER, BERRY LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER, BERRY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: Three Rivers (District Authority)
National Grid Reference: TQ 04601 94250
Summary
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History
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Details
TQ 09 SW RICKMANSWORTH BERRY LANE
(Southeast side)
Mill End
8/124 Church of St. Peter
II
Parish church. 1875 by R.C. Sutton following bequest from E.C. Walker.
Knapped flint with Bath stone dressings. Slate roof. 4 bay nave. 1 bay
chancel, short transepts, S porch. Gothic Revival Style. W end has 2
pointed arched windows with geometrical tracery, upper round windows to
centre with inner quatrefoil and outer trefoils and quatrefoils. Central
and angle buttresses. Stone plinth, string courses and hood moulds with
stiff leaf terminals. Coped gable parapet. Bellcote. Nave N elevation:
three 2 light pointed arched windows, geometrical tracery throughout,
stone bands at sill, impost and cornice. Similar to S with porch in W
bay, cusped pointed entrance arch, moulded archivolt, shafts in jambs,
buttresses, coped gable parapet with cross at apex. Transepts have large
3 light windows, angle buttresses, coped gable parapets with apex
crosses, lancets in W returns. Chancel has lower ridge, coped parapet to
nave E end with apex cross. 3 light E end window, angle buttresses,
blocked window on S return, 3 lancets on N return. Vestry to NE of
transept, low and gabled, entrance to E with round window above, lancet
to N. Organ bay to SE with gable to E, 2 blocked lancets. Interior:
moulded and pointed chancel and transept arches on engaged column
responds with foliate capitals, ornamented spandrels to transept arches,
engaged colonnettes flanking E window. Nave roof has pseudo single
hammer beam with collar truss, quatrefoil and trefoil openings, arched
braces. Ceiled chancel and transept roofs. Gothic round pulpit at NE
corner of nave, engaged shafts and projecting heads of apostles. Similar
Gothic font at W end, quatrefoil base with 4 marble shafts to circular
bowl. Chancel screen moved to S transept, wrought ironwork. Late C19 and
early C20 glass. Late C20 hall extending to SE not of special interest.
Listing NGR: TQ0460194250
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 158767
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.
End of official listing