Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman

CHURCH OF ST PETER THE POOR FISHERMAN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1107794
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER THE POOR FISHERMAN
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1107794
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETER THE POOR FISHERMAN

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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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 PETER THE POOR FISHERMAN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Devon
District:
South Hams (District Authority)
Parish:
Newton and Noss
National Grid Reference:
SX 56394 46437

Details

SX 54 NE NEWTON AND NOSS REVELSTOKE 9/152 Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman

I

Redundant church. Circa C13 early C14 and C15. Slate rubble with granite dressings. Slate roofs. Comprising:- nave, chancel, south aisle, north transept, south porch and north west tower. Roofless nave with Perpendicular three-light north window and round-arched north doorway. West gable end of nave has two-light blocked triangular-headed window and small round-headed window below flanked by buttresses with set offs. Chancel has three-light east window with rectilinear tracery. North transept has two-light window with crude C14 granite tracery. Long south aisle has C15 moulded four-centred arch three-light windows with four-centred arch lights, Perpendicular three-light east window and two-light west window. Moulded two-centred arch south doorway. Gabled south porch with round arch with impost mouldings and carved unceiled wagon roof. Gabled tower at west end of north side of nave, with round-headed bell-openings with slate louvres, the lower east window has carved jamb which may be part of a Saxon cross shaft. Interior: four bay south arcade with wide double hollow-chamfered four-centred arches monolithic granite piers with alternating shafts and hollows and with moulded bases and similar capitals. South aisle has unceiled carved wagon roof. Octagonal font.

Listing NGR: SX5639346433

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
100432
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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