Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176298
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1176298
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bruton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 69994 33319
Details
BRUTON CP ST63SE REDLYNCH 5/192 Church of Saint Peter 24.3.61 II*
Church. c1750. By Nathaniel Ireson of Wincanton. Local stone rubble with bands and dressings of Doulting stone; hipped Welsh slate roof. Single-cell plan of 5 bays, with central North porch and South East vestry added. Plinth, band course above windows; plain semi-circular headed windows, with rectangular clear leaded panes including much C18 glass, set on plain cills with jambs, impost blocks, architraved arches with keystones; centre bay North side has gabled porch, with matching arch to inner door, possibly C20; two Eastern bays on South side occupied by C19 gabled vestry, with Venetian window in South wall, and Westernmost bay has arched doorway to match windows; East elevation has no window, but a simple bell turret with two offsets and a recess in the wall to shelter the outside ringer; the West elevation is likewise windowless, but features a C20 memorial with rusticated piers, proudstanding panel with cornice over, and legend "In Memoriam" with coat of arms and "Semper erectus" below. Interior has large coving to moulded plasterwork ceiling; reredos to East wall featuring Ionic columns with cornice and central pediment, plasterwork decorations in panels; good wall panelling, altar rail; pulpit is of wood panelling, partly recessed into South wall and matching dado panelling in nave; pews may be of C20. Memorial in semi-circular arched recess in West wall to several members of the Pepper family. Built for the Earl of Ilchester, of Redlynch Park (qv), where Nathaniel Ireson was Master-Builder.
Listing NGR: ST6999433319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 261642
- 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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