CHURCH OF ST PETER
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II
List Entry Number: 1309763
Date first listed: 04-Oct-1960
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Devon
District: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish: Peters Marland
National Grid Reference: SS 47825 13491
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
PETERSMARLAND PETERSMARLAND
SS 41 SE
4/29 Church of St Peter
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4.10.60
GV II
Parisn church. Some C15 fabric survives in tower but mainly rebuilt in 1868. Stone
rubble walls with granite quoins, to tower. Gable-ended slate roof.
Plan: nave, north and south aisles and south porch were built in 1865 - the west
tower dates to the C15 but appears also to have been partially rebuilt.
Exterior: 3 stage battlemented tower with obelisk finials. 2 probably C19
buttresses extend up to the 2nd stage of the west wall. 2-light trefoiled belfry
openings. C19 3-light west window with intersecting tracery. C15 granite west
doorway with roll and hollow moulding. The north aisle has 2 Decorated style 3 and
4-lignt windows and a single trefoiled light at the west end. Lean-to vestry in
angle between aisle and chancel. 3-light East window of Decorated style and a
similar 2-light window on the south side of the chancel. The south aisle has an
intersecting tracery window at its east end. Otherwise they are of the Decorated
style. South porch has steeply pitched roof and 4-centered stone arch doorway.
Interior: re-used granite south doorway with Tudor arch, roll and hollow moulding
and ball stops. 3 bay arcades of slender columns with small capitals and deep
hoodmould over each arch.
Modern square font of free-stone. Tiled floors. Pulpit and choir stalls of simple
carved woodwork.
Source: Beatrix Cresswell - Churches in the Deanery of Torrington
Listing NGR: SS4782513491
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 91003
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cresswell, B F, Notes on Devon Churches in the Deanery of Torrington, (1925)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing