Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119385
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1119385
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Goathill
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 67585 17214
Details
GOATHILL ST 61 NE - 6/48 Parish Church of 31.7.61 St Peter - II Parish Church. Some C13 remains, largely rebuilt early C19 (date 1804 on west gable). Chancel restored in 1873. Nave re-roofed in 1878. Rubble- stone walls, with diagonal buttresses to chancel. Clay tile roof (nave) and stone slate roof (chancel), with stone gable-copings. Gabled bell-cote on west gable, with crosses on other gables. Nave and chancel. Nave has two single lancets on south wall, and a late C13 lancet on north wall, of one trefoiled light with a label. Chancel has two lancets on south wall, and 3 stepped lancets for each window. South porch, rubble-stone walls and clay-tile roof with stone gable-coping. Entrance has a four-centred head. Plank-and-muntin door, with four-centred head, C19. Interior: small, pointed chancel arch, C19. Nave roof, semi-circular barrel, C19. Fittings: Font, tapering cylindrical bowl with central roll-moulding and chamfered stone plinth, C12. Pulpit: stone, with panelled and traceried sides, C19. Glass: east window, four roundels (a) a triple crown (b) a lily-pot with the initials W.I. and S.I. both C16; (c) and (d) fragments made up into shields, C17. (RCHM Dorset I, p.119(1))
Listing NGR: ST6758517214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105588
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 119
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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