PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER

PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118662
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1118662
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL

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:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Langton Herring
National Grid Reference:: SY 61438 82462

Details

LANGTON HERRING CHURCH HILL SY 68 SW 6/125 Parish Church of St Peter 26.1.56 GV II Parish Church. C14 Nave and Chancel. West Tower added early C19. Church drastically restored in 1827 and 1858, when vestry and south aisle added. Rubble- stone walls with stone dressings. Slate roofs. Chancel, C20 east window. South wall, 2 windows, eastern C20, except for jambs and cill, western a single C14 lancet. Nave, north wall, 3 windows, single lancet, C20, and two 2-light windows with panel tracery, C20. Under the middle window are the jambs of the destroyed north doorway. West Tower, entrance to church through south wall. Three stages, two strings with thin loop-lights, castellated parapet. Further pointed-arch entrance on north side. Interior: south arcade of 2 bays, large central column, with a square block capital with flat fascias, C19. West doorway with a restored 2-centred head. Chancel-arch; single respond order with moulded jambs. Label with square stops. C20 arch, responds re-used. Fittings: Font, stone, octagonal bowl with a quatrefoiled panel in each face, moulded underside, stem with trefoil- headed panel in each face, moulded and stepped square base, C15. Communion-rails, with turned balusters and newels with turned tops, moulded and enriched rail, C17. Monuments, north wall Tablet, white marble with laurel wreath at top, 'In memory of William Sparks, who died on 3rd March, 1829, in the 70th year of his age. Made by Chislett'. (RCHM Dorset I, p.130 (1)).

Listing NGR: SY6143882462

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Legacy System number:: 105244
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 130

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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.