CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGHER PERTWOOD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131173
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGHER PERTWOOD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1131173
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1966
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGHER PERTWOOD

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, HIGHER PERTWOOD

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chicklade
National Grid Reference:: ST 88877 35811

Details

EAST KNOYLE HIGHER PERTWOOD ST 83 NE (west side) 5/17 Church of St Peter 6.1.66 GV II Anglican parish church, now closed. C13, restored 1812, rebuilt 1872. Flint rubble stone with limestone dressings, tiled with fishscale tile bands and coped verges. Nave and chancel under one roof, north aisle, south porch, west bellcote. Gabled south porch, partly timber-framed, nave and chancel to right have three 2-light pointed windows with cusped lights, buttresses with offsets. East end has 2-light C19 window in geometric style, set back buttresses, coped verge with cross finial. North side of chancel and north aisle of 1872 completely ivy-covered at time of survey (August 1986) and no details visible. West end has gabled bellcote. Interior not accessible at time of survey; photographs in NMR. C19 roof trusses to 2-bay chancel and 2-bay nave, continuously chamfered chancel arch, 2-bay C13-style north arcade. Some fittings removed, but said to retain pews and wall tablets to Sheldon family, floor tablets to Mervyn family. C14 piscina with moulded pointed arch with hoodmould with mask terminal to right. Chapel probably here from C12, annexed as a chapel of ease to Chicklade in 1899. In very poor condition at time of survey; part of roof fallen in. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975; VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965; NMR photographic collection)

Listing NGR: ST8887735811

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 321123
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
Pugh, RB, Crittall, E, The Victoria History of the County of Wiltshire, (1965)

Legal

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