Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383711
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- 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:
- 1383711
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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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.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Coreley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 61319 73994
Details
CORELEY
SO67SW Church of St Peter
482-1/11/123
12/11/54
GV II*
Church. C13, altered 1757 and C19. Brick and moulded brick to
chancel and nave on sandstone plinths. Coursed sandstone
rubble with ashlar quoins to tower. Plain clay tiles to roofs,
shingle to spire.
PLAN: chancel, nave with south porch, tower.
EXTERIOR: chancel and nave in Flemish bond C18 brick with
brick string course and moulded brick cornice. Fenestration of
stone cusped lancets set in C19 brick. 3-light cusped lancet
east window. Coped brick gables to nave and chancel roofs of
different heights. C19 brick porch. C13 tower with setback
buttress to south-east, broad flat buttress to north-west. C13
lancet to west with reputed C13 reset glass. One lancet at
both stages of south tower wall. Wood shingle spire on tiled
base and lead squint flashes.
INTERIOR: 4-bay nave roof with 2 purlins, king-post trusses
with scalloped king post, principals and struts. 2-bay chancel
roof with 2 purlins and C18 king-post truss with swept braces
and principals. Brick chancel arch. Plain pulpit in Jacobean
style.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Shropshire: Harmondsworth:
1958-: 113; An Architectural Account of the Churches of
Shropshire: Cranage D H S: 1895-).
Listing NGR: SO6131973994
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484143
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 113
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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