CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, A39

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1320777
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, A39

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1320777
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, A39

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, A39

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Marksbury
National Grid Reference:: ST 66649 62317

Details

ST 66 SE MARKSBURY C.P. A39

2/2 Church of St. Peter 1.2.54 G.V. II*

Anglican Parish Church. Late C12 origin, mainly C15, early C17 repairs, upper stage of tower, late C18, extensive restoration of 1875, organ chamber 1897. Rubble brought to courses, freestone dressings, slate roofs with raised coped verges, crested clay ridge tiles. West tower, nave, north porch, chancel, organ chamber. Mainly Perpendicular. Tower of 3 stages, first stage has diagonal buttresses, a canted stair turret in the return of tower and nave and a very small west door with a canted flat arch under a 2-light, chamfered mullion window dated 1634; second stage has a cusped 2-light window with heavy louvres to the north, a blocked single light to the east and 2-light chamfered, vaguely pointed windows south and west, contemporary with third stage which has one enormous, round headed window with raised architrave and louvres per side, thin, embattled parapet dominated by 4 pyramidal pinnacles with vanes. At south, the nave has two 2-light windows under hoodmoulds flanking a blocked, moulded round headed door under a plaque dated 1627; at north 2 similar (that to west is thinner and ogival) windows flank gabled north porch whose pointed outer door has a large chamfered moulding from springer up, inner round head door has a heavy chamfer and vestigial scallop capitals. The buttressed, off-centre chancel has to north one window as elsewhere, 3-light east window of 1875, labels unfinished; lean-to organ chamber to south has east window as elsewhere and the relocated head of former priest's door. Interior: plain, narrow tower arch, chancel arch off-set as for north aisle. Fittings: square font, C12, scraped; Jacobean altar table. Monuments: in chancel; Counsell, 1671, slate tablet, frieze, apron, crest; Wadden, 1682, text in cartouche flanked by pilasters with momenti mori carrying entablature with crest, apron with putto; in nave: Boulter 1782, marble ground, text below draped urn, by Brewer of Box.

Listing NGR: ST6664962317

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Legacy System number:: 32695
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.