Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, VILLAGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304234
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, VILLAGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304234
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, VILLAGE 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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, VILLAGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chetnole
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 60224 08190
Details
CHETNOLE ST 6008 VILLAGE STREET (East side) 6/21 Parish Church of Saint Peter 31-7-61
- II*
Anglican Parish Church. C13 origin. Tower C15, Porch C17, chancel rebuilt and aisle added 1860-65, architect W Slater. Rubble stone walls, tiled roofs with coped gables. Separate gabled roofs to nave and aisle. Nave, north aisle of 4 bays, chancel, west tower, south porch. Tower of 3 stages, with battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles. Moulded string course with carved gargoyles below parapet. 2-light Perpendicular windows to belfry, with pierced stone. panels. On west face, clock with plaque dated 1878. Main west window of 3-lights, with Perpendicular tracery. West door below this, in moulded pointed arch. Diagonal buttresses and moulded plinth. In south wall of nave, west of porch, one C13 lancet. Round-arched doorway to porch. East of porch. 2 C15 - Perpendicular style 3-light windows, with hoodmoulds. South wall of chancel - C19 - has two 2-light Perpendicular style windows with hoodmoulds. Diagonal buttresses to chancel. East window of 3 lights, Perpendicular style, with hoodmould. North wall of chancel has 2 windows, as in south wall. In east wall of north aisle, a re-set C15 three-light Perpendicular style window. Diagonal buttresses to aisle. North wall of aisle has four 3-light Perpendicular style windows, - C19. Internally, walls of nave and chancel stripped, aisle walls plastered. Late C15 barrel roof to nave, with moulded ribs, carved bosses and enriched moulded wall plate. C19 roofs of similar design to chancel and aisle - all boarded internally. Stone flag floor in nave - C19 tiles in chancel. North arcade has moulded arches, piers with attached shafts and carved caps. Chancel arch. C19 has single shafts with moulded caps. Carved stone corbels in wall above this, supporting nave roof ribs. Tower arch has single shafts with carved caps. On each side of this, angle corbels with carved heads support eastern buttresses to tower. Font, C19, octagonal, with quatrefoil panels. C19 oak pulpit. Piscina in south nave wall.( RCHM Monument 1. (Dorset. Vol.I))
Listing NGR: ST6022408190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 106039
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952)
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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