Church of St Petrock

CHURCH OF ST PETROCK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1105205
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Petrock
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETROCK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1105205
Date first listed:
22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Petrock
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETROCK

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETROCK

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County:
Devon
District:
West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Inwardleigh
National Grid Reference:
SX 56010 99444

Details

INWARDLEIGH INWARDLEIGH SX 59 NE 10/145 Church of St Petrock - 22.2.67 GV II* Parish church. Late C15 and early C16 restored in 1899. Stone rubble walls, rendered to tower. Gable ended slate roof. Plan: nave, chancel, north aisle, west tower and south porch. Aisle may he an early C16 addition. Exterior: 3 stage west tower with diagonal buttresses, crenellated with crocketted pinnacles which have fleur de lys finials. 2-light segmental-headed belfry openings. Plain chamfered granite west doorway with 2-centred arch. Simple 2-light mullion window with roundheaded lights above. North aisle has 3 early C16 3-light granite mullion windows with round heads and square hoodmoulds. Granite north doorway is recessed behind heavy square-headed frame with large hoodmould - it has 2 centred head with large quatrefoils in spandrels and carved jambs. Image niche above with 2-centred head. East end of aisle has 3-light Perpendicular granite window. Chancel east window is 3-light Perpendicular restoration in red sandstone. South side of chancel has very narrow 4-centred head priest's doorway with square hoodmould and carved date which is now illegible. 2-light C15 cinquefoil headed mullion window to its left. Single storey gabled south porch has rebuilt 2-centred arched doorway with projecting imposts. Interior: porch has restored wagon roof. South doorway has restored 2-centred head and original granite jambs with pyramid stops. Internal walls have C20 render. 4- bay granite arcade of Pevsner A-type piers with moulded cup capitals and 4-centred arches. Plain tower arch. No chancel arch. C19 boarded wagon roofs. Some old glass survives in east window of aisle with human figures. Good Norman cushion font with flower and star carving on panels, bands of ornament to shaft and plait moulding at base. Several slate floor memorials survive of C16, C17 and C18 dates. Source: Beatrix Cresswell - Churches in the Deanery of Okehampton Kelly's Directory 1906.

Listing NGR: SX5601099444

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Legacy System number:
93258
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches in the Deanery of Okehampton, (1906)
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1906)

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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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