Church of St Peter
Church of St Peter, Church Road, GU8 4JD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240725
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Church Road, GU8 4JD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1240725
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, Church Road, GU8 4JD
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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 Road, GU8 4JD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Waverley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hascombe
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 00181 39542
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 March 2025 to update the Address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 03NW
10/170
HASCOMBE C.P.
CHURCH ROAD
Church of St. Peter
(Formerly listed as SCHOOL LANE)
GV
II*
Church. 1864 by Henry Woodyer. Rough-coursed galleted sandstone with ashlar dressings; plain tiled roof with wood shingled broach spire and bellcote. Nave and north aisle with independently roofed chapel to south, bellcote to west, chancel to east, vestry to north east and porch to south west. Offset buttresses and paired lancet fenestration in C13 style, with smooth ashlar surrounds to windows. Quatrefoil panels between windows on south side. Diagonal and clasping buttresses to chapel. Plinth and sill course to four "shouldered" lancets under continuous hood moulding. Trefoil window and door to west end of chapel with door in shallow forward break. Large three-light and trefoil windows to east and west of the chapel. Coved eaves on chancel with apsidal east end. Four windows to south, two windows to north, either side of easternmost buttress containing window. C20 vestry to north of chancel. Three paired and one single lancet to north side of church.
West front:- Three-light window with three blind quatrefoils and nook shafts. Three louvred openings to each face of bellcote above. Gabled porch to south with braced entrance posts and V-strut roof. Arched openings to sides. Roll moulding around south door.
Interior:- Unusually complete mid-Victorian scheme of decoration. Nave walls painted with the "miraculous draught of fishes" in 1890 in gold and blue. Patterned tile floor on nave. Detached nook shafts and rear arches to window surrounds. Richly decorated chancel and apse. Roof rafters cusped and gilded, deep east lancet made up into a rich composition with the wall surface adjoining used as a reredos, mosaic and marble inlaid. Candleholder sconces in shape of angels with stencilled decoration and rich decoration of soffit of chancel arch.
Font - 1690, from the old church. Square stone bowl on square stem. C15 Rood screen, restored in 1864 and decorated by Hardman and Powell. Stained glass also by Hardman and Powell. Monument - West Wall. Dedicated to William Middlefield, died 1785. By T. Hews Neo-classical style. Grey marble ground with flanking Cherubim and mourning female figure in Classical dress. Inscription panel below with scrolls and garlands flanking oval relief.
PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp.302-3.
V.C.H. Surrey (1967 Ed) Vol. III pp.102-4.
Listing NGR: TQ0018139542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439128
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 302-3
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 102-4
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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