Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CASTLE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282177
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CASTLE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282177
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 05-Jul-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CASTLE PARK
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, CASTLE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59122 73096
Details
BRISTOL
ST5973 CASTLE PARK
901-1/40/184 (South side)
08/01/59 Church of St Peter
II*
Church. C12 lower tower, the rest C15. Pennant rubble with
limestone ashlar dressings to an open shell without roof or
glass.
Aisled, unclerestoreyed nave and W tower. Early Perpendicular
Gothic. c1950 rebuilt E end of plain rubble; S aisle has a
5-light E window with alternate tracery. N aisle of 7 bays
articulated by buttresses, with a deep plinth: small C15 four-
and 2-light cinquefoil-headed windows with square heads in the
E bay, an octagonal rood stair tower against the buttress of
the second bay, and a large chamfered bullseye in the middle
one; the sixth bay is windowless, and there are 5-light
windows in the remainder; arched door in the W bay has shafts
to polygonal moulded capitals within a continuous casement
moulding with Tudor flowers, and an arch of sandstone
voussoirs.
Broader S aisle of 6 bays with wide 5-light windows between
buttresses, and a late Perpendicular E window, blind below a
transom. The W ends of the aisles are gabled, a narrow 3-light
window with mullions to top of the arch in the N side, and a
5-light window in the S. A large, square, unbuttressed 3-stage
tower flush with the aisles: a wide doorway with 3 orders
separated by hollow mouldings below a rubble relieving arch;
3-light window above, and a small 2-light flat-headed window
to the second stage; the belfry has a 2-light louvred window,
a cornice with gargoyles on the corners and a crenellated
parapet with crocketed pinnacles.
INTERIOR: roofless and undecorated: 3-bay arcade on the N side
with stairs to rood; broad S aisle, with windows the width of
the bay sharing a half-round shaft. The base of the tower and
arcades are reinforced with concrete. HISTORICAL NOTE:
excavations of 1975 suggest that this was the site of
Bristol's first church; the C12 city wall runs under the W end
of the present church. It was gutted in the Second World War,
and preserved as a ruin by the City; the concrete was put in
in 1974.
(Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural
History: Bristol: 1979-: 59; Smith M Q: The Medieval Churches
of Bristol: Bristol: 19).
Listing NGR: ST5912273096
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 380175
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Smith, M Q, The Medieval Churches of Bristol, (), 19
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 59
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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