Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345202
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1345202
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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 AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shepton Mallet
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 61977 43670
Details
ST6143 SHEPTON MALLET CP CHURCH LANE (South side)
6/66 Church of St Peter & St Paul
20.5.52
GV I
Parish church. Principally C12, C13, C14 with extensive C19 alterations. Doulting ashlar. Perpendicular style, consisting of nave, North and South aisles, chancel and Western tower. Tower, 1380, finest feature in early Perpendicular style. One pair of prominent set-back buttresses to each corner, connected diagonally across the angle of the tower, terminating in freestanding pinnacles, further diagonal shafts terminating in pinnacles on the tower itself. Pierced parapet with quatrefoils, stair turret to North side. West window of 6-lights, geometrical tracery, above 3-niches for statuary with original central figure. 2-light bell openings, flanked by blank 2-light windows. Stump of unfinished spire to roof. Aisles rebuilt 1836 by Wainwright, 6-bays each. Above clerestorey windows to nave of 1881, the nave itself has a pierced parapet with pinnacles between each bay. Chancel, rebuilt 1847, has a reticulated window of 3-lights to East end, flanked to South by late C19 vestry, and to North by 2-storey vestry of the C15 which now contains the organ. Interior has fan vault to tower, elaborate wagon roof of C15 to arcaded nave, arches dating from C12, early C13 chancel arch, and double piscina of c1235. The wagon roof is the most remarkable feature made up of 350 panels and 300 bosses each of individual design. Furniture includes pulpit of c1450 having canopied and gabled niches, C14 font and 2-effigies of knights dating from the C13 in the North aisle. 9-memorial plaques in the tower of the C17 and C18, several to the Strode family, including William Strode. Plaques to Strodes Bread Charity, relating to nearby Almshouses (qv), adjacent to tower arch. Other tablets of C18 and C19 some by King and Reeves of Bath, some by Paty and Wood of Bristol.
Listing NGR: ST6197943670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 266464
- 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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