Church of St Peters
CHURCH OF ST PETERS, VERE STREET W1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1357345
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peters
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETERS, VERE STREET W1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1357345
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peters
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETERS, VERE STREET W1
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 PETERS, VERE STREET W1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 28661 81239
Details
TQ 2881 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER VERE STREET W1 56/63 Church of St Peter's 10.9.54 I Built as the Oxford Chapel for the Chandos Estate. 1721-24 by James Gibbs. Brown brick with red brick dressings and Portland stone, rusticated quoins, slate roof. Simple preaching box judged from outside with semicircular and segmental arched windows. Block bracketed cornice and parapet to long sides. Pedimented gable ends, at west end surmounted by smallsquare brick bell tower with bracketed cornice and domed octagonal 2-stage lead cupola. Doric tetrastyle stone pedimented at west end between architraved doorways with pediments. The interior despite screening off of aisles below galleries, is a forerunner in miniature of St Martin -in-the-Fields. Giant columns on pedestals rise to cross-vaults and segmental nave ceiling. Delicate and lovely Rococo plasterwork to shallow sanctuary and main ceiling by Bagutti. Stained glass by Burne Jones (Morris & Co) in east window of 1871 and south window 1882, north 1889.
Listing NGR: TQ2866081242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 207377
- 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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