Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135702
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08264/31
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1135702
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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 ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pitton and Farley
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 21253 31569
Details
PITTON AND FARLEY CHURCH LANE, Pitton SU 23 SW 7/118 Church of St Peter 23.3.60 II*
Anglican parish church. C12, early C14 and restored 1878-1880 by Ewan Christian. Flint with greensand dressings, tiled roofs, copper to aisle. Nave with north aisle and vestry at right angles. South porch raised as tower. Two light C14 windows to nave, restored, with 3-light intersecting tracery west window. Rectangular windows to chancel with a C19 3-light east window. Porch has a shouldered 2-centred arch with hollow chamfer, and benchmark. Bell chamber over, C19, with single lancets and a pyramidal roof with wind vane of 1801. Inner door late C12, a round arch with bowtell hood. Interior: Nave has C19 polygonal trussed rafter roof. North arcade of 3 bays on round columns and capitals, all C19. C12 capital built in to east wall of nave. Chancel arch on corbels. Rere- arches to windows in C13 style, possibly reproducing predecessors. Open trussed rafter roof. Medieval piscina bowl set in sill of south east window. Reredos of glazed tiles. Glass: east window, 1880 by C.E. Kempe. Fittings: Font, C12 bowl with double twisted band, set on later column. Pulpit, oak, octagonal, C19. Clergy desks and choir stalls with open carved foils. Sanctuary rail on brass supports. Monuments: Incised slate tablet of Great War. Brass, reset in chancel wall, to Edward Zouche, died 1580.
Listing NGR: SU2125331569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320013
- 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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