Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115302
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115302
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL
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, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Freshford
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 78971 60159
Details
ST 7860-7960 FRESHFORD C.P. CHURCH HILL (North-east side) 10/1 Parish Church of St. Peter 1.2.56 II*
Parish Church of St. Peter. C15th, C17th, C18th and restored c.1858-59, probably by C.E. Davis of Bath. West tower C15th; Nave; North aisle (1736); South porch; North chancel Chapel, c.1800; Chancel 1859. Ashlar; coursed, squared rubble chancel; Cotswold stone slate roofs. West tower; Perpendicular; 3 stages, diagonal buttresses with stepped set-offs; embattled parapet with pinnacles; single-light bell chamber openings. Embattled parapet to nave and aisle; C19th Y-tracery windows in Nave; tall mullioned 2-light windows with ogee tops to north side. Gabled south porch. Interior: quatrefoil piers to arcade with depressed segmental arches; double squint with age heads; number of C18th and C19th wall tablets, especially over south door and in north aisle (Elizabeth Still, 1748; Honor Cooper, 1753; and Henry Fisher, 1760); C14th/C15th octagonal font.
Listing NGR: ST7897160159
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32279
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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