Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, SAINT PETER'S WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1217958
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, SAINT PETER'S WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1217958
- Date first listed:
- 08-May-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, SAINT PETER'S WAY
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, SAINT PETER'S WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 40168 57781
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ4057 SAINT PETER'S WAY 920-1/12/207 (East side (off)) 08/05/50 Church of St Peter (Formerly Listed as: DAME DOROTHY STREET (South side) Church of St Peter)
GV I
Formerly known as: Church of St Peter CHURCH STREET Monkwearmouth. Formerly separate churches of St Peter and St Mary. Monastic church, now parish church. 674-5 first church, of which survive west wall and 2-storey gabled W porch which is now the lower stages of the tower, for Benedict Biscop the founder. Upper stages of tower before 1000. Rest of church by end C14. Nave and chancel much altered in C19: chancel arch removed early C19, N aisle rebuilt and E window reproduced 1875-6 by Austin and Johnson. Interior and roof rebuilt 1985? after fire. Rubble with quoins and C19 ashlar dressings; renewed Lakeland slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave and N aisle; W tower; chancel with S organ chamber. EXTERIOR: E elevation has clasping buttresses and a central buttress below 5-light window with decorated tracery; small top light with ogee tracery; east front of north chancel organ chamber has pent extension with 2-light cusped tracery in pointed-arched window above. South chancel wall has 2 square-headed 2-light windows with tracery. South transept has 3-light window in style of east window under steep gable; nave has dripmoulds over 4 renewed 3-light south windows; North paired transept gables have 2 windows; north aisle has 3 3-light windows as in nave, with angle buttresses. West elevation shows single high light half-obscured by tower fourth stage. 5-stage tower has open-arched porch with 3 round-headed arches on impost blocks, the W arch with balusters supporting eroded low-relief carving of interlace-type animals. Next stage has single round-headed opening; above this, in former gable, an eroded figure; fourth stage a single plain arched light; belfry has 2 arched lights with baluster mullion; small blocked roundel above. INTERIOR: porch barrel-vaulted. West wall shows sequence of alterations including low wide arch. Nave arcade pointed arches on round piers. Chancel floor has ochre and terracotta coloured tiles repeating motif of figures at west door jambs among other medieval motifs, and inlaid bands of marble. Exhibition panels and cases of finds from excavation displayed in north transept. Organ chamber now with arch blocked to form upper meeting room. Glass includes two lights by Kempe in north transept; other glass by LC Evetts. Ground to south of church a Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 4-5; Medieval Archaeology: Cramp R: Article: 24-42).
Listing NGR: NZ4016857783
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391582
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, Milburn, G, Buildings and Beliefs, (1984), 4-5
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, ()
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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