CHURCH OF ST PETER
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185897
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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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.
End of official listing