Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1165141
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1165141
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1958
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 21-Oct-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Huntingdonshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Easton
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 13856 71574
Details
TL 17 SW EASTON CHURCH ROAD (South Side)
6/96 Parish Church 28.1.58 of St. Peter (Formerly listed as Church of GV I St.Peter)
Parish church, noteworthy for its finely proportioned late C14 tower and spire, and nave roof dated 1630. The north wall and fragments of carved stones in the walls are early C12. South aisle and arcade, chancel and chancel arch c.1300. In C15 the east end of chancel rebuilt. Rood stair, clerestorey and porch early C16. Chancel restored in 1871_and repaired in 1905, the rest of the church c.1876-79 and again in 1903-04. Spire in 1908. Recent restoration of tower, spire and nave roof. Walls of limestone and pebble rubble with limestone dressings and ashlar spire. Roofs all low pitched, covered in lead, north porch roof replaced with plain tile gable roof. North facing elevation. Chancel of two bays with square buttresses set in from angles and plain parapet. Two windows in four-centred arches of two lights with tracery, one window originally C14 and heightened. Nave wall of three buttressed bays with angle buttresses at quoins, has two late C15 windows with two and three lights, mullioned and transomed. The porch, c.1500, has a two-centred outer arch with continuous moulded jambs, roof has two C17 tie beams with jack legs and pendant finaials. The inner doorway C14 with two-centred head has continuous moulded jambs. Clerestorey of four bays with three-light windows in square headed arches. West tower of four stages with square buttresses set in from angles and rising to height of belfrey windows. Belfrey windows, coupled two-lights with quatrefoiled transomes and tracery in two-centred heads. Bands of quatre- foils below cornice. Octagonal broach spire has three tiers of spire lights. Interior. The chancel arch is two-centred with two chamfered orders resting on moulded corbels. Roof C19. South arcade c.1300 of four bays with two-centred arches of moulded capitals and chamfered bases on high square plinths. Nave roof of four bays has moulded and carved beams with jack legs and moulded spandrels with shaped and pierced pendants and on soffit of tie beams. The south door has some original iron hinges, one with a stamped rosette and lappet thought to be Thomas de Leighton's work. Original piscina resited in south wall with two-centred head. South aisle roof modern with C17 tie beams. C13 font with square bowl and chamfered angles. C15 oak screen of five bays with open and panelled tracery. Oak benches made from used C17 panels, and two popey-head pews. C17 poor box on back bench. C17 balusters in two modern desks said to have come from Stow Longa Manor House, RCHM (Hunts) p70- . VCH (Hunts) p42-44. Pevsners: Buildings of England, p235. Norris Museum. Inskip Ladds Collection. (Measured drawings and specification, J. Ladds, 1868- .)
Listing NGR: TL1385671574
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 54565
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Huntingdonshire, (1926), 70
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 235
Page, W, Proby, G, The Victoria History of the County of Huntingdon, (1936), 42-44
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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