Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1102783
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1102783
- Date first listed:
- 27-May-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Mar-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- North Hertfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kimpton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 17758 18526
Details
TL 1718 KIMPTON CHURCH LANE (east side)
9/86 Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul 27.5.68
GV I
Parish Church. Circa 1200 nave. C13 chancel. C15 S aisle and chapel,nave clerestorey and W tower. Restored 1861 and N aisle rebuilt. Rubble flint with stone dressings. Red brick to eaves. Nave has Westmoreland slate hipped roof and C18 wooden coved eaves. 3-stage W tower has clasped buttresses and tall moulded plinth. W door in deep surround. Battlemented. Needle spire. 2-storey octagonal stair turret on N. Fenestration is restored C15. N nave aisle has plate-traceried gabled windows. C15 crenellated Porch with polygonal stair turret. Interior has nave arcade of 6 bays in a Transitional/Early English style. Drum Piers with capitals alternately stiff leaf and scalloped. 2- light cusped clerestorey windows. C18 flat nave roof. S chancel aisle has tall C15 3-arch arcade with Piers of 4 shafts. Shallow canted C15 timber roof to S nave aisle, the tie beams on figured stone stops. Screen and stalls of chapel C15. Traces of C13 painting on jamb of lancet window next to E window of Chancel. Monument to Thomas Brand, twentieth Baron Dacre (d.1851) on N chancel wall: good Early English style tabernacle frame. Wall monument to Sir Jonathan Keate (d. 1700), S chancel chapel: marble plaque with entablature and fluted pilasters. Main E window: glass by Mayer of Munich c.1890. (Pevsner (1977)).
Listing NGR: TL1775818526
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 162033
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)
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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