Church of St Peter

CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261112
Date first listed:
28-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261112
Date first listed:
28-Oct-1986
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Surrey
District:
Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:
Hambledon
National Grid Reference:
SU 97035 39006

Details

SU 93NE HAMBLEDON C.P. CHURCH LANE

9/123 Church of St. Peter GV II

Church. Rebuilt 1846. Coursed Bargate stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Nave and north aisle with chancel to east and gabled porch to south. Square, wood- shingled bellcote to west with double louvred-light openings on north and south faces. Pyramidal roof over the bellcote under ball and weathervane finial. Buttressed west end with quatrefoil roundel over two lancets below, all with linked hood moulds. One Decorated Style two-light window and one plate tracery window to south side under hood mouldings. Gabled offset buttress between lancet fenestration to chapel under hood mouldings with sill bands and string courses linking windows and buttresses. Corbel band to eaves. Three-light, stepped lancet to east end with human head stops to hood moulding. Trefoil entry to south porch with chamfered surround to planked door. Interior:- Chalk facing. Triple arcade to north on octagonal piers. Panelled ceiling. C19 fittings. Octagonal stone font, white and coloured marble with deep panels to octagonal bowl. Square stem with attached foliage capital shafts. A copy of the font in Bosham Church, Sussex.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p V.C.H. Surrey (1911) Vol. III pp 42-3/4.

Listing NGR: SU9703539006

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
438317
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971)
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 42 43 44

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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