Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, FERRY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310930
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, FERRY LANE
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- Date:
- 2001-06-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/06950/01
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1310930
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, FERRY 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 ST PETER AND ST PAUL, FERRY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Medmenham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 80474 84472
Details
MEDMENHAM FERRY LANE SU 88 SW (west side) 8/111 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul 21.6.55 GV II* Parish church. Nave is mid C12 with late C15 fenestration; early C15 W. tower; chancel c.1480; all much restored C19; N. transept rebuilt and N. vestry added 1925. Flint and chalk block, the tower part roughcast. Tiled roofs. W. tower is of 3 stages with battlemented parapet, diagonal buttresses, and stair projection with slit windows at S.E. corner. 2-light traceried openings to belfry, small cusped lancets below, Perpendicular 3-light traceried W. window over moulded doorway. Nave has restored late C15 2-light windows with ogee tracery, flat heads and Tudor hoodmoulds, 3 to south, 2 to north. N. side of nave also has semi-circular chalk arch blocked with brick, and lower walls are part rebuilt in brick. S. door has slightly chamfered semi-circular arch with later moulded imposts, and C19-C20 gabled timber porch. Chancel has restored traceried windows with arched heads, 2-light to N. and S., 3-light Perpendicular to E. Restored S. door. Interior: tall tower arch of 2 orders, with waved and hollow chamfering, the inner order on semi-octagonal piers with moulded caps; chamfered 2-centred niche, formerly stoup; nave roof with slight plain king posts possibly late C15, double chamfered arch to N. transept; C19 hammerbeam screen to chancel; restored piscinae in chancel and S. wall of nave. Early C19 marble wall tablets. C19 fittings. Chancel glass by Willement. RCHM I p. 254-255.
Listing NGR: SU8047484472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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