CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, RIVERSIDE, LONDON COLNEY, AL2 1QA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174696
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, RIVERSIDE, LONDON COLNEY, AL2 1QA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1174696
Date first listed:: 27-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, RIVERSIDE, LONDON COLNEY, AL2 1QA

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, RIVERSIDE, LONDON COLNEY, AL2 1QA

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: St. Albans (District Authority)
Parish:: London Colney
National Grid Reference:: TL 18191 03760

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/05/2016

TL 10 SE 13/123

LONDON COLNEY HIGH STREET (north side) CHURCH OF ST PETER

GV II Parish Church, 1825, by George Smith. An early example of the Norman revival with painted stucco facade when listed in 1984, removed during repairs 1987. Red brick side elevations. Slate roof. Single aisle with 2-storeyed gabled front. The front is tripartite with shallow stepped dividing buttresses, the central buttresses formerly with pinnacles. The door, approached by flight of steps, is round arched and flanked by narrow blank arches. Above is a tripartite arched window. All doors and windows with hood moulds. Most openings have slender shafts with scalloped capitals. Side elevations with 5 round-headed cast iron casements. Interior has 4 wooden roof trusses and a 6-column rear gallery. Stained glass E windows, depicting ascension, designed by the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford and made by Hughes in 1865. 1983/84 N extension.

(Pevsner (1977), Barker Kenneth, (2010) The History of St Peter's Church, London Colney).

Listing NGR: TL1819103760

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Legacy System number:: 163657
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Barker, Kenneth, The History of St Peter's Church, London Colney, (2010)
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.