Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175106
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/05435/21
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1175106
- Date first listed:
- 02-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH 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:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST5638041803
Details
ST54SE NORTH WOOTTON CP HIGH STREET (East side)
4/94 Church of St Peter
2.ll.66
GV II*
Anglican Parish Church. C14/C15, restored C19, including rebuilt chancel. Coursed and squared rubble, lead sheeting and
slate roofs, coped verges with cruciform finials. Nave, chancel with organ loft, south porch, west tower. Embattled
tower with diagonal buttresses, pinnacles, 2-light bell chamber windows with louvres. Two-bay nave, small 2 bay
chancel, the former with a rood stair turret to south with lancet window. Porch with an ashlar frontage, diagonal
buttresses, sun dial; shafted outer door opening, adjacent to right a stoup; benched interior. Plasted interior on tile
floors, C19 wagon roofs; Perpendicular chancel and tower arches. Most important feature the C15 benches, some with
carved ends; some further C15 carving to choir stalls, Norman tub font with cable banding, C18 cover. Rood stair.
Remains of a C17 communion table. Royal arms dated 1826. Some C19 stained glass to chancel. Late C18 tablet, 2 further
detached C17 tablets in the porch. Late C19 organ.
Listing NGR: ST5638041803
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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