Church of Saint Peter
CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283658
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1283658
- Date first listed:
- 29-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT 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.
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 SAINT PETER, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kington Langley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 92418 76913
Details
KINGTON LANGLEY CHURCH LANE ST 97 NW (north side)
8/70 Church of Saint Peter
GV II
Anglican parish church, 1855-7 by Charles H. Gabriel, squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof, coped gables and west end ashlar gabled bellcote. Nave and south porch, chancel and north vestry/organ chamber. Lancet windows and shallow buttresses. Four-window nave with paired lancets and south side large stone-slated timber porch. Moulded and shafted pointed doorway within. West end has stepped mid-buttress with lancet each side and quatrefoil roundel above. Two-window chancel has sill- course and smaller single lancet lights, 2 to south, one to north and east end 3-light stepped-lancet window. North side projecting vestry has hipped roof carried down low on north end, west side shouldered-head doorway and two small east side lights. Interior: 4-bay nave roof of 1906 with deep arch-braced collar trusses on corbels, 2-chamfer chancel arch, the inner arch on foliate-carved capitals and 2-bay scissor truss chancel roof. Bright coloured east window 1861 and one nave south window of 1906. Stone pulpit and font. (Rev W.J. Meers, Langley Fitzurse and Draycot Cerne, 1956)
Listing NGR: ST9241876913
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 315881
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Meers, Reverend W J, Langley Fitzurse and Draycot Cerne, (1956)
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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