Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164121
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1164121
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, 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.
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 AND ST PAUL, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Steeple Morden
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28573 42467
Details
TL 2842 STEEPLE MORDEN CHURCH STREET (West Side) 22/206 Parish Church of S.S. Peter and Paul 22.11.67 GV II
Parish church. North and south nave arcades late C13, with clerestory of quatrefoil lights blocked by late C14 aisle roofs. Late C14 south porch. Collapse of spire c.1625 ruined chancel which was rebuilt during the restoration by T.C. Hine of Nottingham, in 1866-69. A belfry and spire were added above the south porch in c.1670, and reconstructed in 1866. Some interior remodelling c.1903. Walls of flint and pebble rubble with clunch and freestone dressings, and clunch and limestone ashlar. Plain tiled and leaded roofs, spire shingle clad. South elevation: Gable parapets to nave and chancel roofs. Diagonal buttresses of three stages to south aisle and south porch and chancel. Plain parapet to south aisle and three large three-light windows with vertical tracery in two-centred arches with moulded labels. South doorway, two-centred arch with moulded jambs, and doorway to west with four-centred head and original door leading to first floor of porch. South porch, two storeys surmounted by timber-framed bell chamber and broached spire with louvred, pent roof and spire lights; doorway restored of two chamfered orders of double ogee and wave mouldings. Chancel with one two-light window in two-centred arch. Font, late C13 or early C14. Glass fragments in south windows of chancel. Brass indent in nave, purbeck slab with matrices for a knight and lady c.1400. Two purbeck slabs in south porch. Monuments: North wall of north aisle tablet in black and white marble surmounted by an urn to Rev Richard King M.A. d.1810; and below an oval panel to his wife d.1822.
R.C.H.M. Report 1950 V.C.H. Vol. VIII, p122
Listing NGR: TL2857342467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 52611
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1982), 122
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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