PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER

PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331821
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1959
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1331821
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1959
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE

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

County:: Cambridgeshire
District:: East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Stetchworth
National Grid Reference:: TL 64249 59028

Details

TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH CHURCH LANE (North Side)

6/152 Parish Church 19.8.59 of St. Peter

II*

Parish church. Chancel C13, tower late C14 or early C15. Nave arcades, north and south aisles and clerestorey C15. Nave and aisles restored in 1894 and chancel 1907. Walls of flint and pebble rubble with limestone and clunch dressings. Roofs of slates and modern plain tiles. Tower of three stages with clasping buttresses, moulded plinth band and belfry. Parapet with flint flush work and corner pinnacles with finials. Two- light belfry windows in two-centred arches. South aisle wall projects at east and west end as buttresses, with one blocked possibly C14 window. Four windows with cinquefoil lights in flat arches, two round windows with quatrefoils. Two lancet windows in south chancel wall with buttresses of two stages. East window rebuilt. Interior. Nave arcade of four bays, piers with embattled capitals, two-centred arches with hollow and plain chamfers. Guild bracket on south side of pier in north arcade, (also graffiti including woman with head-dress). Head corbels reset in aisle walls. Very fine C15 niche in south aisle with crocketed canopy on demi figure of angel. Nave roof restored C19, has C15 carved wooden corbels to moulded tie beams with carved spandrels to braces. Chancel roof C19. Organ C19 by Henry Jones, London. Font C16, octagonal bowl panelled with carved head bosses to quatrefoils, supported on octagonal stem with spurs to plinth. Monument in north aisle to Henry Gorges, d.1674, Superintendent and Surveyor General of the draining of the Bedford Level. Attributed to A. Storey (d. c.1696). Two kneeling figures in white marble holding hands over two books under open pediment, parents of Henry Gorges, whose white marble effigy with wig and Roman costume lies on tomb chest below. Monument to Ashton Benyon, d.1856, by E. Davis (b. 1813, d.1878). Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.460. RCHM (Cambs. notes), 1951. VCH Vol. VI, p.175. Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors, pp.122,374. Maynard, Ms. Vol.IV, CRO.

Listing NGR: TL6424959028

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Legacy System number:: 49230
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953), 122
Gunnis, R, Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851, (1953), 374
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 460
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1978), 175

Legal

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