Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321637
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1321637
- Date first listed:
- 31-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH 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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wrestlingworth and Cockayne Hatley
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 25923 47366
Details
WRESTLINGWORTH & CHURCH LANE TL 2547 COCKAYNE HATLEY (Wrestlingworth) 15/115 Church of St Peter 31.10.66 GV I Parish church. C12 origins, C13, C14 and C15. Rubble walls, mixture of cobbles and ironstone with some fragments of C12 masonry. Ashlar dressings, mostly of clunch. Slate roofs. Chancel, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. Chancel: C19 3-light pointed-arched E window. N elevation has blocked C12 round-arched light, blocked 4-centred arched doorway, and head of small pointed light, apparently reset. C14 pointed lowside window with transom to NW. S elevation has similar low side window to SW, 2-light square-headed window to E and C19 pointed-arched doorway between. C14 pointed chancel arch. Nave: C12 origins. 3-bay arcades on octagonal columns to both sides, S one earlier C13, N one later C13. S arcade W respond has plain leaf ornament. Early C15 clerestory has 3 windows to each side, all of 2 lights witn 4- centred arched heads. N aisle: late C13. E elevation has a 2-light window. N elevation has 2 windows, one of 3 lights, one of 2 lights. All are square- headed with reticulated tracery. Pointed-arched doorway. S aisle: earlier C13. Similar fenestration to N aisle. Pointed-arched S doorway retains C13 jambs and carved capitals, shafts removed. S porch: C19, of dressed limestone. 4-centred archway. Single lights to side elevations. W tower: C15. 3 stages, with octagonal stair turret to SW angle, and embattled parapets. 2-light pointed-arched windows to bell-stage and to ground stage of elevation. Interior: chancel roof retains only 2 original tie beams. Nave has C15 roof with moulded timbers. C15 font in S aisle, octagonal bowl and stem with carved quatrefoil panels. Nave floor has slab with indents for figure under crocketed canopy and for 5 shields. N aisle E window contains a few fragments of medieval glass. C19 pewing.
Listing NGR: TL2592347366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38484
- 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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