Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325259
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04434/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1325259
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton and Noss
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 54994 47753
Details
SX5447 AND SX5447 NEWTON AND NOSS NOSS MAYO 13/140 29/3/60 Church of St Peter
II*
Parish church. 1882 by St Aubyn. Pink rock-faced coursed rubble with granite dressings. Scantle slate roofs with granite coping to gable ends which have apex crosses. Perpendicular style. Nave and chancel in one. Long north and south aisles with three-light Perpendicular panel tracery windows. Five-light Perpendicular east window. South porch with moulded two-centred arch, carved spandrels and label. West tower of three storeys with string courses and moulded plinth. Buttresses with set-offs set back from the corners. Embattled parapet. Polygonal stair turret over north west corner with battlements. Three-light Perpendicular traceried bell-openings. Four-light Perpendicular west window over west doorway with shields in the spandrels. Built on steep site with semi-circular conically roofed vestry on lower, north, side, overlooking Newton Creek on the estuary of the River Yealm. Interior: four-bay north and south arcades plus another bay in chancel to arcade chapels. Plastered walls with murals. Unceiled wagon roofs with carved bosses and with angels in the chancel. Elaborately carved contemporary furnishings including choir stalls, benches, screens, pulpit, lectern, font, altar rail and painted reredos.
Listing NGR: SX5499447753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 100421
- 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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