Church of St Peter

CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1163560
Date first listed:
30-May-1958
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1163560
Date first listed:
30-May-1958
Date of most recent amendment:
04-Nov-1982
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Old Hurst
National Grid Reference:
TL 30012 77303

Details

OLD HURST CHURCH STREET 1. 5140 (north side) Church of St Peter (formerly listed as Chapel of St Peter) TL 37 NW 4/21 30.5.58 II* 2. Small C13 Parish Church of nave and chancel under continuous roof. Pebble-rubble and freestone with Ketton and Barnack stone dressings. Plain tiled. West window of two pointed lights in two centred arch with moulded label. Two modern recesses for bells in gable end. Three windows to south wall, two of two pointed lights with quatrefoil in two centred head with moulded label and mask stops, and one plain lancet. South doorway of two moulded orders. Inner order trefoiled, outer two centred and carried on attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases. East wall rebuilt 1903 and late C13 window reset. Two pointed lights with quatrefoil in two centred head with moulded label and mask stops. North vestry modern. Late C12 piscina pillar in chancel. C13 font. Octagonal basin with three light window tracery to each face. Central octagonal stem and eight attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases on common plinth. (RCHM Huntingdonshire p 162).

Listing NGR: TL3001277303

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
54126
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 162

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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