CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1115498
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1115498
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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

District:: Rutland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tickencote
National Grid Reference:: SK 99044 09492

Details

SK 9809-9909 TICKENCOTE 10/163 14.6.54 Church of St Peter GV I

Church, C12, restored, partly rebuilt and added to 1792 in Norman style by S P Cockerell, nave re-roofed and re-seated 1872, Consists of 3-bay nave, 2-bay chancel with priest's chamber above, south tower of 2 storeys and bell-stage, north vestry. Of stone, with Collyweston stone slate roofs and coped gables. Exterior: chancel, buttressed with engaged round shafts. Restored east end has blind arcade of intersecting round-headed arches. Round-headed east window with stylized leaf-mouldings and billet moulded hood mould continuing as frieze to either side. Taller, narrower window above lights priest's chamber. 2 orders of blind round-headed arcading above billet frieze. Blind rectangular panels in gable. Lower arcade and billet frieze return on north and south sides of chancel. North - and south windows similar to east window, but revealing much smaller and entirely plain openings in inner skin of wall. Cornice with stylized leaf moulding (similar to but not the same as that to the windows). Nave treated in a similar manner but without arcading. North vestry, with hipped roof, lit by small plain round-headed windows in recesses with moulded heads. South tower has pyramidal roof with weather vane and contains bells which until 1792 hung in a bell-cote at the west end of the chancel. Round-headed entrance with 4 roll-moulded orders. Tympanum carries tablet commemorating Eliza Wingfield who paid for the 1792 work. Interior: Outstanding mid C12 round-headed chancel arch of 6 elaborately decorated orders on ornamental capitals. The innermost order is roll-moulded, the 2nd has beak-heads, the 3rd zig-zags and crenellations, the 4th various motifs - heads, figures, animals and foliage - the 5th zig-zag and the outermost stylized leaf mouldings surrounded by a billet-moulding. The chancel has a sexpartite rib-vault, perhaps c.1160-70 and of its type unique. The ribs have zig-zag moulding and are carried on stumpy columns with ornamental capitals (the central column to the south is replaced by a taller semi-octagonal shaft). Central boss with head and 2 muzzled bears' heads. Entrance to priest's chamber in north east corner, now blocked. Tall round-headed arches with ornamented capitals enclose windows. Square late C12 font with interlaced arcaded decoration, on recut base. C14 wooden effigy in chancel. Wooden altar table of 1627. C19 nave roof carried on grotesque heads. (V C H Rutland, ii, pp, 277-81.)

Listing NGR: SK9904409492

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Legacy System number:: 187251
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Rutland, (1935), 277-81

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.