Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130132
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130132
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
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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.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brington and Molesworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 07024 75805
Details
TL 0675 BRINGTON AND MOLESWORTH MOLESWORTH
20/13 Parish Church of 28.1.58 St Peter
II*
Parish church. Chancel c.1270-80. Nave rebuilt C15 and west tower added late C15. Restoration 1884-5, chancel reconstructed; south porch added 1890. Walls of Weldon limestone rubble and field stones, Ketton and Barnack limestone dressings. Roofs of plain tiles and lead. South elevation: Tower of two stages with chamfered plinth and embattled parapet. Single second stage cinquefoiled-light with moulded label. Nave, with chamfered plinth and projecting parapet and pilaster-strips extended from buttresses; two late C15 windows each of three cinquefoiled lights in four-centred heads with moulded labels. Late C13 south doorway with two-centred arch with one stop-chamfered order and shafted jambs one with a moulded capital and the other carved with oak foliage, both with moulded bases. Chancel with moulded plinth and string course below windows. Two sets of graded lancet-lights with chamfered jambs (similar to north wall though not graded). Priest's doorway with two-centred head has two hollow-chamfered orders with a moulded string, to west a 'low-side' window with a square-head. Interior: Noteworthy wall paintings of St Christopher (RCHM plate 105) and St Anthony. Tower arch, two-centred of two orders, the outer hollow-chamfered and continuous, the inner wave-moulded with semi circular responds and semi-octagonal moulded capitals and moulded bases. Doorway in east wall to roof with two-centred arch in a square head. Blocked C15 north doorway to nave with chamfered jambs and four-centred head. Chancel arch, late C13, two-centred of two chamfered orders, the inner with semi-circular attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases, and with a moulded label to the nave. North and south wall arcades of three bays with two-centred arches and one chamfered order with moulded labels. The arches of the second and third northern bays carried down to seat recesses; the third arch in the south wall has the priest's doorway and 'low-side' window. The early C15 roof of the nave of three 'bays' has moulded and cambered tie beams and short king posts, moulded purlins and ridges. The chancel roof has some reused C14 timbers. Font, early C18, octagonal baluster shaped, with shallow bowl. Piscinae in chancel with circular drain and moulded square head. Pulpit, early C18. Sundial on second buttress of south wall of nave. Fragments of early masonry in north nave wall.
RCHM: Huntingdonshire P182 VCH: Huntingdonshire p21 Pevsner: Buildings of England p294
Listing NGR: TL0702475805
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 182
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 213
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 294
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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