CHURCH OF ST PETER
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257973
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jan-1997
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PETERS ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PETERS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- High Peak (District Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 06684 74142
Details
BUXTON
SK07SE ST PETER'S ROAD, Fairfield
616-1/2/95 (North East side)
Church of St Peter
GV II
Church. 1839, altered 1895-97, 1902 and late C20. By William
Swan, village schoolmaster, on site of earlier church. Coursed
millstone grit with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs.
STYLE: Gothick with Gothic Revival additions.
PLAN: west tower and nave. South porch added 1897 and
transepts, chancel, south-east vestry and north-east organ
chamber added in 1902.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth. Original nave has chamfered eaves
and corner pinnacles. 3-stage west tower has rusticated quoins
and single lancets to both lower stages on 3 exposed sides.
Third stage has 2-light Y-tracery bell opening to each face,
topped with moulded cornice battlements and corner pinnacles.
Nave has three 2-light Y-tracery windows to each side and to
south a projecting gabled porch, with moulded pointed arched
doorway with double plank doors and ornate iron hinges, with
date and inscription in gable apex.
South transept has pointed arched doorway and above a 2-light
pointed arched reticulated tracery window. Beyond south-east
vestry has pointed arched doorway flanked by single lancets
with a circular window above.
Chancel has single side lancets and a 3-light pointed arched
window with reticulated tracery.
Organ chamber has a single lancet and north transept has a
2-light pointed arch window with reticulated tracery.
All windows have hoodmoulds and carved label stops, and the
later additions to east have angle buttressing.
INTERIOR: plain stonework to original building, later
additions whitewashed except for gritstone dressings.
Nave of 3 bays. Wooden gallery to west end on cast-iron
columns, modified in 1977. 1859 king post roof. Open benches.
FITTINGS: include stone font possibly from earlier church.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire:
Harmondsworth: 1953-1986: 214; The Story of St Peter's
Church).
Listing NGR: SK0668474142
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463239
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1953), 214
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
