Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332033
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1332033
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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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.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Longwick-cum-Ilmer
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 76922 05487
Details
SP 70 NE LONGWICK-CUM-ILMER ILMER
1/95 Church of St. Peter
21.6.55.
- II*
Parish church. Originally C12, rebuilt C14, bell-tower added C16. Much restored 1860. Coursed rubble stone, old tile roofs. Timber- framed bell tower with weatherboard cladding and narrow shingled broach spire is built in W. bay of nave. Nave, bell-tower, N. porch, chancel. Bell-tower has 2-light traceried wooden openings to N. and S., and smaller lights to other faces. Nave has single ogee light to W., C15-16 window of 2 cusped lights to N., and 2-light window in blocked chamfered archway to S. This arch originally gave access to S. transept. S. doorway, now blocked, has C12 semi-circular arch, one side on moulded impost. Small N. doorway has double chamfered 2-centred arch with moulded imposts. Similar arch to porch. Chancel has 2 bays of single lights, one to N. a lancet, the others with cusped ogee arches, and a 2-light traceried window to E. Interior: bell-tower has heavy timber framing with curved and cross braces, and moulded arch with carved boss to nave. C19 wooden chancel,arch and roofs. Chancel has cusped ogee piscina and window-seat sedile. N.W. window of chancel has clunch reveals, the lower parts with carved panels showing St. Christopher and the Trinity. Rood screen is C15-C16, with cusped wooden tracery on low stone walls. Late CIS panelled pulpit. Octagonal stone font, possibly C14; C17-C18 wooden cover with ogee arches and finial.
RCHM I p.218-219
Listing NGR: SP7692205487
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46366
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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