Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, WYNDHAM SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386508
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, WYNDHAM SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386508
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, WYNDHAM SQUARE
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, WYNDHAM SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 46893 54804
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654NE WYNDHAM SQUARE, Stonehouse 740-1/56/841 Church of St Peter 01/05/75 (Formerly Listed as: WYNDHAM SQUARE, Plymouth Church of St Peter)
GV II
Nonconformist chapel called Eldad built in 1830, licensed as an Anglican church in 1848, small chancel added in 1849-50 by GE Street, the rest rebuilt 1880-82 by G Fellowes Prynne, whose father was the vicar, and in 1906 the tower was added. The church was badly damaged in the Blitz and restored in the 1950s by F Etchells, when the walls leading to the apexes of the roofs were lowered and the walls around the other parts of the church increased in height to form level parapets surrounding replacement flat roofs. Plymouth limestone brought to course and with yellow stone dressings; roofs behind moulded parapets; steep octagonal copper roof to tower. STYLE: Early and mid Gothic. PLAN: nave with clearstorey; lower chancel; N and S aisles; N and S transepts; W tower; SE chapel with apsidal E end; NE vestry and S porch. EXTERIOR: 2-light pointed-arched windows with tracery and hoodmoulds to N and S walls of aisles and 3-light windows to W end of aisles. Chancel has large 5-light window with geometric tracery. Buttressed 2-storey transepts each have 2 bays of triple lancets. Vestry has 3-light mullioned windows. 3-stage angle-buttressed tower has balustraded parapet between crocketed corner pinnacles. There is a parapet cornice and modillion cornice over bell-stage with 3 tall equal louvred lancets with turned shafts and quatrefoil apron. Stage below has 4 narrow slit windows within lancets with turned shafts over 2-light traceried window above large pointed-arched doorway with 4 orders of nook shafts; pair of C20 doors. Gabled S porch has corner buttresses surmounted by octagonal turrets with blind lantern arcades and spires; niche with statue over moulded pointed arched doorway with squat nook shafts. INTERIOR: columns replaced by steel columns encased in pre-cast concrete moulded blocks, supporting ceiling of oak beams. Stations of the Cross by Charles Stapleton. Stained glass by James Paterson. HISTORY: the Reverend George Rundle Prynne was appointed Vicar of the new parish of St Peter's in 1848, and his work (until
his death in 1903) assured the parish a prominent position in the Catholic Revival in the Church of England; the rebuilding to the designs of H Fellowes Prynne, his son, was completed with the building of the tower and spire in 1906. Occupies a prominent position in the city, at centre of square designed by Foulston. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 645; Midgley R: Report on the Church of St Peter: 1995-).
Listing NGR: SX4689354804
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473895
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989)
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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