Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226356
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1226356
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Papworth Everard
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 28266 62644
Details
TL 26SE PAPWORTH EVERARD CHURCH Lane (South Side) 8/91 Parish Church 31.8.62 of St. Peter
GV II*
Parish church. Chancel walls and nave including buttresses C13 with east wall of chancel and west bay of nave rebuilt possibly in C17 re-using medieval material. West tower demolished after a great storm in 1741. Restoration in 1850 at expense of W.H. Cheere; tower rebuilt 1871 and spire added in 1877 and demolished in 1963. Plain tile roofs with stone copings to parapets with cross finials. Walls of field stones with limestone dressings. North elevation. Tower of three stages with main entrance through two-centred arch with shafted jambs and bell capitals, (similar to chancel arch), embattled parapet, two-light belfry window and one lancet-light. Three nave windows of two-trefoiled-lights with quatrefoil in two-centred arches and two chancel windows with single trefoiled-light. Gabled south porch and organ loft project from south elevation. Interior. Font C13; for monuments see R.C.H.M. These include wall monument to Charles Madryll Cheere, 1825 neo-Greek by Gaffin, London, floor tiles c.1850 with inscription on risers to chancel steps; chancel screen c.1920. R.C.H.M. West Cambs mon.1, p.196 Pevsner. Buildings of England p.448
Listing NGR: TL2826662644
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423481
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1954), 448
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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