Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1340986
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1958
- 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:
- 1340986
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1958
- 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:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Siddington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 03472 00186
Details
SIDDINGTON SIDDINGTON VILLAGE SP 00 SW 3/172 Church of St. Peter 26.11.58 GV II* Anglican church. Norman foundation, enlarged on north side c1470, restored 1864 by Henry Woodyer, including building of tower. Coursed and dressed stone on plinth with ashlar diagonal buttresses to south porch, stone slate roof with coped verges and saddle stones with cross finials. Nave with large south porch tower, chancel, long north aisle, and small north vestry of C19. Large tower of 1864 with broach spire with lucarnes, of 3 stages with string courses and stepped diagonal buttresses to south, on offset plinth. Single trefoil lancets on second stage and double louvred belfry openings on top stage with trefoil-panelled frieze below cornice. Stair tower in north west corner with narrow pointed arch doorway. Large pointed archway on south side with stepped moulding. Norman south doorway with cable moulding and beakheads and carved tympanum showing Christ in Majesty. Rainwater heads dated 1864 on south side, 3-light window to east of tower. Chancel has restored twin cusped lancets to north and south, and C19 triple stepped lancet east window with elaborately carved mouldings above capitals. The Langley Chapel of 1470 on north side has embattled parapet and stepped buttresses to corners and dividing 3 grouped trefoil lancet windows with straight heads, 7/5/5-lights from east to west. Interior: Nave roof of braced collar beams with king posts and struts and with braces carried on hammer posts and corbels, with 2 tiers of arched side wind bracing; Langley Chapel has moulded compartmented beam roof; chancel roof of braced collar beams, with ridge beam below and purlins all moulded. Norman chancel arch with chevron mouldings and pelleting on hoodmould. Pointed nave arcade of 4 bays with cylindrical columns. North wall of Langley Chapel has 3 small tomb recesses, 2 still with matrices on wall for brasses. Glass from east window of Chapel removed to Cirencester between 1792 and 1800. Access to Chapel from chancel through arch with concave mouldings and angel corbels with Langley Arms. Chancel mainly C19. Some C19 decorative stencilling in nave and on pulpit. Tall Norman font with herringbone patterns. (David Verey, The Buildings of England - Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds 1979; local information booklet).
Listing NGR: SP0347200186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 129471
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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