Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285238
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1285238
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Wittenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 56638 93449
Details
LITTLE WITTENHAM MAIN STREET SU5693 (West side) 10/59 Church of St. Peter 14/06/63
GV II*
Church. C14 tower, rest of church rebuilt by Charles Buckeridge c.1863. Uncoursed squared limestone with stone dressings, old plain-tile roof; stone end stack to vestry. 3-bay nave, chancel, vestry and west tower. Early English style. Gabled stone porch to centre of nave with 2-centred archway on foliate-capped columns. 2-centre arched doorway with plank door. Plate tracery windows to nave, cusped plate tracery windows to chancel. Tower to left with octagonal stair turret, 2-light window of reticulated tracery to left return, cross-slits to rear and left return. 2-light louvred openings of reticulated tracery to top stage. Battlemented parapet. Interior: C19 stained glass window by Clayton and Bell. Sedilia and piscina to right of marble reredos. Recessed altar tomb of c.1483 to Geoffrey Kidwelly to left with shields to panels of altar base and brass to top; quatrefoil carving to recess with cusped tudor arch and buttress-shafts. Good collection of monuments and brasses to tower: alabaster monument to Sir William Dunch and family, of 2 effigies, she recumbent, he on his side with his head on his arm, obelisks to each end. Good brasses to Dunch and Winchcombe families. C19 fittings including pews and choir stalls with wrought-iron candelabra, stone pulpit, and font with pinnacled wood cover. Scissor-braced roofs to both nave and chancel. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol IV, 1924, p.383-4; Buildings of England: Berkshire, 1975, p.169).
Listing NGR: SU5663893449
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 248672
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1975), 383-4
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1924)
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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