Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331352
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1331352
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- South Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boxworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 34833 64491
Details
TL 36SW BOXWORTH HIGH STREET (West Side)
9/1 Parish Church 31.8.62 of St Peter
GV II*
Parish church. C12 north wall, west wall and respond of south arcade to nave. C14 south arcade and south aisle. Chancel, vestry and tower c.1640 rebuilt after a storm; tower rebuilt 1811 and remodelled during 1868-9 restoration when north and south proches were added. Walls of re-used limestone and pebble rubble. Roofs of slate and lead. south elevation, tower of two stages with limestone quoins and plinth, embattled parapet with corner pinnacles, similar embattled parapet to nave, aisles and chancel. Four, fixed-light wooden dormer windows to aisle roof; aisle with three square-headed clunch windows, one of four lights C17, and two of three cinquefold-lights possibly C14. South doorway with two- centred head and continuous moulding. Chancel with rendered walls and vestry in angle with aisle. Re-used roll-moulded C12 limestone quoins to buttresses. Interior. Nave arcade C14 of four bays; clunch piers with moulded caps and chamfered bases with two, two-centred arches of two-chamfered orders. Chancel arch similar to arcade but possibly rebuilt in C17. Nave and aisle roofs C17 with braced tie beams and pendants. Font, C13 octagonal bowl. Octagonal pulpit with sides of two bolection moulded panels and inscription, 'WW 1682'. C18 clock. Monuments and brasses (see R.C.H.M), include brass to J Killingworth, Rector 1667; floor slab to Nicholas Saunderson F.R.S. Professor of Mathematics 1739; and monument by Payne of St. Ives to Robert Underwood 1792. R.C.H.M. West Cambs. Mon. 1, p.28 Pevsner. Buildings of England p.308
Listing NGR: TL3483364491
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 50919
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 308
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Cambridgeshire West, (1968)
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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