CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345771
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345771
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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:: CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brympton
National Grid Reference:: ST 51503 16860

Details

ST51NW BRYMPTON D'EVERCY CP LUFTON 3/27 Church of St Peter and St Paul 19.4.61 GV II Anglican parish church. C14 or earlier origins, but rebuilt 1865 by Benjamin Ferrey, incorporating some old fragments. Ham stone roughly cut and squared ashlar dressings; plain clay tiled roof between coped gables. Two cell plan of single bay chancel and 3-bay nave, with south porch and west bull turret. Chancel has chamfered plinth, cill course and eaves course with ball flower ornament, side buttresses; 3-light east window with Geometric style tracery, label with headstops, and single plain lancet in north and south walls; nave has plinth, moulded eaves course, buttresses at junction with chancel and to sides at west end: 2-light windows with various types of tracery, all with headstop labels; west window 3-light Geometric style above which is the belfry, oblong with pitched roof, on carved corbel base, with one arched opening to north and south and two to east and west. South porch has low wide pointed arch on scalloped corbels, with headstop label inner arch plain. Inside, chancel has arched scissor braced roof, rere-arches to windows including shafts and moulding to east window; timber panelled reredos and typical C19 fittings; chancel arch of 2 orders with single C12 type shafts. Nave has king post truss roof, and rather wide splays to windows. Of the fittings, a stoup by the south door partly old, and the font, possibly C12, is a circular tub with chamfered plinth, cable mould and ring of incised ornament at top including crosses; otherwise fittings C19 or C20 (news). Several reclaimed memorials, including floor slabs of 1663 and 1771. Small print of single cell pre-1865 church in nave. First recorded rector before 1420. (Pevsner, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST5150316860

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Legacy System number:: 263482
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

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