CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187408
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1187408
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1948
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Cirencester
National Grid Reference:: SP 00996 03964

Details

CIRENCESTER

SP0103 STRATTON 578-1/2/362 Church of St Peter 14/06/48

GV II*

Church. Early C12 and early C14 to south wall of nave; late C15/early C16 south doorway; otherwise rebuilt and north nave aisle added 1850. Coursed squared limestone; stone slate roofs to chancel, vestry and north slope of north nave aisle, artificial stone slate to south slope of north nave aisle, Welsh slate to nave. Single-bay chancel, 3-bay nave with north aisle, vestry in angle of chancel and north aisle, C20 timber lean-to to west end of north aisle. Chancel: east gable wall has C19 three-light pointed window with reticulated tracery with hoodmould, diagonal offset buttresses, chamfered plinth, one C19 two-light pointed window with reticulated tracery and hoodmould to each of north and south walls. North nave aisle: east gable wall has C19 two-light pointed window with reticulated tracery, offset angle buttress to north-east angle, chamfered plinth, north wall has three C19 two-light pointed windows with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds, offset angle buttresses and chamfered plinth, west wall has one similar window. Nave: south wall has two 2-light windows with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds, to west C19 copy of that to east, Norman lancet window with round head high up to west of east window, C19 gabled porch with moulded stone pointed doorway with hoodmould with sundial over, Welsh slate roof with coped gable, west gable wall has 3-light pointed window with panel tracery and hoodmould, small single-light window in gable above, small bellcote with 2 bells at apex of gable. INTERIOR of chancel has 2-bay barrel-vaulted ceiling with arch-braced truss on carved stone corbels, north nave aisle has unplastered barrel vault, nave has segmental plaster ceiling; no plaster to walls. 3-bay pointed arcade between nave and north aisle. Simple C19 furnishings; C19 stained glass to east window of chancel, central window to north wall of north nave aisle, Norman window to south wall of nave by TM Cox, 1927, west window of nave; chancel has 7 late C18 and early C19 marble wall memorials, 5 with urn decoration, two similar early C19 memorials with urns to south wall of nave. South door is early studded door with 3 panels formed by applied moulding with Tudor-arched head in moulded stone surround; over door inside porch is Norman Tree of Life tympanum with dogtooth lintel. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P.426).

Listing NGR: SP0099603964

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Legacy System number:: 365122
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 426

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.