Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185897
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185897
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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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:
- Darlington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bishopton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 36521 21247
Details
BISHOPTON HIGH STREET NZ 3621 (East side)
13/18 Church of St. Peter 20/3/67
II
Parish church. Probably C13; largely rebuilt and north aisle and tower added 1846-7 by Sharp and Paley. Coursed sandstone rubble with C19 red sandstone dressings; dressed limestone late medieval east bay of chancel; graduated green slate roofs. Tower on west end of north aisle; nave with north aisle; chancel with north organ chamber (former vestry). Mid C19 lancets and Geometrical traceried windows.
3-stage, diagonally-buttressed tower: polygonal stair turret on south-west corner; pointed windows and 2-light bell openings; medieval grave-slab fragment and cusped niche built into west face; embattled parapet. Mid C19 buttresses on nave and chancel. 3-bay nave: chamfered plinth; 3-light window in diagonally- buttressed west end; mainly 2-light windows, medieval grave slab and large diamond-shaped wall sundial (dated 1776 and inscribed FUGIT HORA) on south; steep roof with coped gables. Lower and narrower 2-bay chancel with lancets: 2 dedication crosses and 3 stepped lancets on diagonally-buttressed east end; steep roof with coped east gable. North aisle has mid C19 shouldered doorway and pent roof. Organ chamber has low-pitched pent roof.
Plain, plastered interior. In nave: C13 font (octagonal bowl on cylindrical stem) with C17 wood steeple cover; 1811 Hutchinson wall monument on south; mid C19 3-bay north arcade of double-chamfered pointed arches on cylindrical piers. Tall, chamfered mid C19 chancel arch; an original C13 trefoil-headed lancet in wall to north of arch. 1889 Caen stone and marble reredos. Mid C19 roofs: nave with 4 braced-collar trusses; chancel with 2 similar trusses.
Listing NGR: NZ3652121247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350376
- 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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