PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1102783
Date first listed: 27-May-1968
Date of most recent amendment: 21-Mar-1984
Statutory Address: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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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
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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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.
End of official listing