Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110423
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1110423
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hinton St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78678 16099
Details
ST 71 NE HINTON ST MARY HINTON ST MARY VILLAGE
4/36 Church of St Peter 4.10.60 GV II*
Parish Church, C15 west tower, remainder 1846 by William Oborne. Coursed, squared rubble and ashlar. Stone-slated, gable-ended roofs with stone copings. Plan: nave, chancel, west tower, south porch and north vestry. Both medieval and C19 work in the 'perpendicular' style. West tower: 2 stages with embattled parapet; weathered strings; chamfered plinth: moulded, 2-centred west doorway with returned label; over is Cl9 2-light, vertical tracery window with a returned label; north wall has rectangular loop; upper stage has 2-centred, 2-light, blind tracery windows with labels terminated by head stops; angle pilasters; crocketted corner-finials; parapet string bears gargoyles; lower string has corner angels bearing blank shields. Nave windows are of 3-lights with square heads and returned labels. North and south chancel windows are 2-centred, of 2-lights with returned labels. Vestry fenestration similar to chancel. East chancel window of 3-lights under 2-centred head with label terminating in head stops. Square headed south chancel doorway. 2 centred, chamfered vestry doorway. South porch doorway has 2-centred, chamfered head with returned label. Internal features: near semi-circular chancel arch, probably of reworked medieval material of 2 orders, shafted jambs with capitals; segmental pointed tower arch of 2 chamfered orders dying into plain responds; king post roofs; Cl8 mahogany veneered pulpit with fielded panelling; probably Cl3 round, tapering bowl,stone font on cylindrical stem and circular base; C17, C18 and Cl9 monuments, notably that to Thomas Freke 1642 with broken pediment supported on Corinthian columns with skull below; other fittings etc mainly C19. RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 114, no 1; Newman, J and Pevsner N, The Buildings of England, Dorset, Penguin, 1972, p 230.
Listing NGR: ST7867816099
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 102664
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Royal Commission on Historic Monuments; Inventory of Dorset Vol 4, (1972), 114
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 230
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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