Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366390
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366390
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Maperton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6721126143
Details
ST62NE
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MAPERTON CP
MAPERTON VILLAGE
Church of St Peter and St Paul
24.3.61
GV
II
Anglican Parish Church. Tower late C15, remainder rebuilt in 1869 by Henry Hall. Local stone cut and squared, with Doulting or Ham stone dressings; plain clay tiled roofs, banded with scallop tiles, between stepped coped gables. Four-cell plan of 3-bay chancel, 4-bay nave and small north and south transepts, with small north-east vestry, south porch and west tower. Chancel has plinth, cill mould, small offset corner buttresses; east window of 3-lights, geometric tracery, with headstop arched label; on south side 3 cusped lancets with headstop labels; on north side, the lean-to vestry and vestry porch to match. North transept has half-height buttresses, oval flue to crown of gable, 2-light traceried window with headstop label; south transept to match, but without flue. Nave has cusped lancets with quatrefoils over, set under arched labels with headstops, no buttresses; south porch to match, with floriated capitals on corbels; plain moulded inner doorway. Tower of 2 stages: plinth, string courses, upper with corner gargoyles, battlenented parapets with simple obelisk corner pinnacles; angled corner buttresses: lower stage plain except on west face, where there is a blocked west doorway, having chamfered pointed arch with label over, and 2-light windows all round, with almost semi-circular arched labels, all fitted with baffles; additional rectangular window with hood mould on south side: square stair turret with offsets, to near full-height, on north-east corner.
Interior has totally C19 character; chancel has an open raised-cruck type roof frame, wide C12 style chancel arch with richly carved capitals and corbels to hall-shafts; elaborate carved rere-arch to east window and imposts to other windows; encaustic tile and carved stone reredos, and choir stalls in character. Nave has arched-braced collar-truss roof, plainer in detail: south transept has some C18 fielded panelling - this, with the matching pulpit, was removed from Sherborne Abbey to this church c1921. Font, an octagonal bowl on circular shaft and base, somewhat damaged, possibly C12: on north wall a hatchment of 1738. Stained glass of east and west windows by Powell. Several C18 memorial tablets in tower; some carved fragments built into wall of south porch, thought to be Saxon.
First known rector in C13.
Listing NGR: ST6721126143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 262062
- 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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