Church of St Peter and Gate-piers, Gates, Wall and Railing to South West
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND GATE-PIERS, GATES, WALL AND RAILING TO SOUTH WEST, ST PETER'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310448
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and Gate-piers, Gates, Wall and Railing to South West
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND GATE-PIERS, GATES, WALL AND RAILING TO SOUTH WEST, ST PETER'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1310448
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and Gate-piers, Gates, Wall and Railing to South West
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND GATE-PIERS, GATES, WALL AND RAILING TO SOUTH WEST, ST PETER'S ROAD
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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 AND GATE-PIERS, GATES, WALL AND RAILING TO SOUTH WEST, ST PETER'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Mylor
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 80745 34013
Details
SW 83 SW MYLOR ST PETER'S ROAD, (north side), Flushing 6/273 Church of Saint Peter and gate-piers, gates, wall and railing to south west GV II
Anglican church including gate-piers, gates wall and railings. Built 1841, and restored in 1871, 1893 and 1906. Designed by George Wightwick of Plymouth. Stucco walls with freestone dressings to window openings and bellcote. Dry slate roof with bellcote over south west gable end and semi-circular apse at north east gable end. Rectangular aisless plan with original porch at south west end, vestry (1871) on left and original chancel apse at north east end. Romanesque style. Single storey. Principal original door and window openings are ordered, and windows, 1 to south west gable and 3 to each side wall, have original cast iron glazing bars with integral fanlights. South west front originally symmetrical, has flat roofed porch with plinth and parapet cornice. Central doorway with hood; circa late C19 ledged doors and carved figure of Saint Peter in tympanum. Further doorway to right- hand side wall of porch and twin gabled vestry adjoining to left of porch, each gable with tall narrow round-headed window. Main south west gable end has hoodmould over central gable window and recessed panel to either side, with narrower window in each and sloping machicolated cornice over. Gable is surmounted by eared gabled bellcote with single bell hung within round-headed opening. Interior: ordered freestone chancel arch; braced tie beam roof structure, ceiled at collar level; plaster blind reredos arcade with 4-leaf enrichments to cornice; and 2 coloured glass windows, one of 1882 and the other 1884. Entrance gateway with square pyramidal capped granite posts with scrolled wrought iron overthrow to central lamp, and pair of finialled iron gates flanked by low brick granite coped walls surmounted by wrought iron railings similar to gate. Despite being reworked in the late C19 this building retains much of Wightwicks original detail.
Listing NGR: SW8074534013
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 63551
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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