Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126000
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126000
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET 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:
- CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL, MARKET HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chatteris
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 39466 86082
Details
1. MARKET HILL 7/109 Church of Ss Peter and Paul
In part 2 the twenty fourth line should be amended to read "Two centred arch with label and two moulded orders with rounded responds with embattled capitals and moulded bases".
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MARKET HILL 1. 5139 Church of SS Peter and Paul TL 383852 7/109 5.7.50
I 2. C14 West Tower, nave, aisles and chancel. Repaired and altered 1910. Coursed rubblestone with Barnack stone dressings. West Tower of 3 stages with restored stepped battlements, small leaded spire and diagonal buttressing. Newel stair with 2 quatrefoil cusp openings at south-east angle. String-courses between stages. West door with continuous moulding and jamb shafts with moulded bases to 2 centred arch and label. First stage with lancet window. Two trefoil openings in 2 centred arch with label and stops to each facet of belfry stage. Interior of tower has large, plain 2 centred arch to blind openings in north and south walls. East wall with similar arch and doorway with deep mouldings and jamb shafts with moulded capitals and bases. Label with one head stop. Above the doorway is a C15 niche with trefoil head and flanking square shafts, diagonally set, with pinnacles. Stoop recess to right hand of doorway. Plain tiled roof to nave with parapet to gable end. Clerestorey with 6 circa 1910 windows of 2 cinquefoil lights in 2 centred heads with moulded labels. Aisles widened and extended in 1910 to flank chancel. Leaded roofs. South aisle with eight 2 stage buttresses and five 3 light windows with cinquefoil heads. Four centred arches with labels, 2 with original head stops. East end of south aisle has 2 C14 trefoil light windows in 2 centred heads and one circa 1910 three cinquefoil light window with vertical tracery in 4 centred head. Two porches to south aisle. One to south-west. C15 with diagonal buttressing. Pedimented gable end with moulded coping. One to south-east circa 1910. Pedimented gable end. Four centred, moulded stone arch to entry. Chancel roof of plain tiles with parapet to gable end. Circa 1910 east window of 5 cinquefoil lights with flow- ing tracery in 2 centred head. North aisle with 5 circa 1910 three light windows with cinquefoil heads. Four centred heads and labels. One C14 three cinquefoil window in 4 centred head with label with head stops to west end of north aisle. Interior of nave now of 6 bays, one to east added circa 1910. Octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases. Two centred arches of 2 orders with labels with head termina- tions, some original. C14 chancel arch, re-erected circa 1910. Two centred arch with label and 2 moulded bases. Upper and lower doorways to rood stair restored. C14 font, plain octagon and shaft.
Listing NGR: TL3946686082
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48022
- 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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