Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237423
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1237423
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jun-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH HILL
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, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Otterhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 25864 42271
Details
ST24SE OTTERHAMPTON CP CHURCH HILL (East side) COMBWICH
4/78 Church of St Peter
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- II
Church. 1870 by J Knowles for Susanna Lewes Jeffery. Coursed and squared blue lias rubble, red sandstone banding, prominent buttresses, tile roofs with fish-tail banding, coped verges with finials. Free Decorated style with Early English featuresi nave with a spired south belfry porch, north and south transepts, apsidal chancel. Three bay nave, single bay transepts and chancel; 2 and 3-light windows, west window with intersecting tracery; lancets to chancel. Elaborate porch with octagonal upper stage, each face with a gabled lantern at its base, ribbed stone spire, clock, stair turret to west side; broad pointed-arch door opening with 2 pairs of detached shafts, foliate caps; paired wrought-iron gates. Lofty plastered interior on tile floors dominated by arch-braced roofs springing from foliated corbels; reredos with 7 foiled gables, a detached shaft with foliate caps between each, pierced by a lancet to centre and each side; plain chancel arch. Virtually complete C19 fittings including pews, choir stalls, altar rails, tub font and oil lamps on brackets; elaborate semi-circular stone pulpit with detached Purbeck shafts. Stained glass to West window and chancel. Brass plaque commemorating the dedication of the church to the West end. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England South and West Somerset, l958).
Listing NGR: ST2586442271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268929
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
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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