Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, NEW ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186230
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, NEW ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1186230
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, NEW ROAD
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 AND ST PAUL, NEW ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- North Warwickshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Water Orton
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 17700 91095
Details
WATER ORTON NEW ROAD SP19SE Water Orton 4/109 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul - II Church. 1879. By Bateman and Courser. Rock faced ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings; plain tile roof with coped verges. North-west tower, 4-bay nave with north aisle, north-east transept and polygonal apse flanked by vestry and organ chamber. Gothic style. Tower: 3 stages marked by strings with angle buttresses dying into the second stage, corner pinnacles and recessed stone spire. Pointed west doorway of 2 wave-moulded orders with double-leaf plank door. Single-light pointed windows to west face of first stage and to the second stage; pointed third stage windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights and 2 roll and fillet-moulded orders springing from colonettes. Around the base of the spire is a frieze of quatrefoils. Nave and aisle: square-headed windows of 2 lights and unorthodox Decorated tracery; sexfoiled clerestory lights; pointed west window with cusped intersecting tracery. The north transept has a pointed 3-light window with Geometrical tracery matched by a similar window directly opposite in the south wall. 3-light pointed windows with Geometrical tracery to the chancel apse. Interior: 4-bay north arcade consisting of pointed arches of 2 chamfered orders springing from cylindrical columns with moulded capitals and bases. Arch-braced collar roof with king-posts above the collars; the arch braces spring from colonettes which in turn stand on corbels. Pointed chancel arch and vaulted chancel with roll and fillet moulded ribs with green man heads as imposts. The chancel windows have hood moulds with stiff leaf stops. Stained glass in all 3 eastern windows. Fittings: good octagonal font, the basin is panelled and has colonettes at the angles. Octagonal pulpit with panelled and traceried sides and pedestal. (Buildings of England: Warwickshire: p466)
Listing NGR: SP1770091095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 309423
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 466
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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