Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136248
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1136248
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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 ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Frampton Cotterell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 66758 82002
Details
ST 68 SE FRAMPTON COTTERELL C.P. CHURCH ROAD (north side)
3/2 Church of St. Peter
G.V. II*
Anglican Parish Church. C15 tower, remainder 1858 by John Norton. Rubble, freestone dressings, slate roofs. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, south chapel. All Perpendicular. 3 stage tower with diagonal buttresses and plinth which carries shields on buttresses, and south-east polygonal stair-turret which rises to an ornate top, 2 tiers of cusped panels, then shield bearing angels, crocketed pinnacles and a conical cap; first stage has west door under moulded arch with hoodmould surmounted by an angel and terminated by regal stops, above is a 3-light pointed window, hoodmould has only head stops; second and third stages have one 2-light window per side under slight hoodmould, they are blank on the second stage and have quatrefoil tracery on the third; buttresses rise as crocketed corner pinnacles around a castellated parapet with cusped panels and central to each side an ogee-headed niche containing a statue. Gabled nave has castellated parapet and five 2-light clerestory windows, lean-to aisles have the same details with 3-light windows between buttresses topped by crocketed pinnacles. There is a similarly dressed, gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses. Tall, gabled chancel flanked by large pinnacles and dominated by large 5-light east window with transom and incorporating rose under crocketed hoodmould with regal stops, three 2-light north windows, quatrefoil plinth. The south chapel has a long 3-light window with transom (almost a low side light) and priest's door under a 2-light window with decorated spandrels between. Interior: very tall wave and hollow moulded tower arch, 5-bay arcade with 4 shafts, 4 waves to a column, mock hammer-beam roof rises from corbel shafts between clerestory windows, tall chancel arch behind slender screen and rood of C20, cusped and crocketed triple sedilia. Fittings: stone pulpit, screen with crocketed niches and statues of Peter and Paul; octagonal font may predate church; fine pair of chests, one simple Jacobean timber, one barrel- topped, iron clad on wheels. Memorial brass inscribed to John Symes 1661. Glass: a didactic series, probably by Bell of Bristol, preceded by one painted window, Annunciation with the new church in the background by C.L. Burckhardt of Munich, 186-. (Source: D. Verey, Buildings of England, Gloucestershire, The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970).
Listing NGR: ST6675882002
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 35425
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)
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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