Church of St Peter in Ely
CHURCH OF ST PETER IN ELY, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386585
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter in Ely
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER IN ELY, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386585
- Date first listed:
- 22-Apr-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter in Ely
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER IN ELY, BROAD STREET
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 IN ELY, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ely
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54243 79782
Details
TQ5479 EL Y BROAD STREET 606/4/10016 Church of St Peter-in-Ely II Church. 1890 by James Piers St Aubyn. Brick faced with coursed ashlar; machine tile roofs. Nave, chancel, south porch and south transept. Decorated style. EXTERIOR: west front with 4-Light window with intersecting tracery; single lancet above. Polygonal bell turret at south-west cornerterminating in stone spirelet over louvred bell-openings. Gabled south porch with moulded arched entrance. 3 3-Light Decorated windows to south and 4 to north nave, all separated by stepped buttresses. South transept with triple lancets in south wall and a roundel above. Decorated chancel fenestration: one 2-Light window north and south and a 5-Light east window. Setback chancel buttresses. INTERIOR: moulded chancel arch and south transept arch. Nave roof of 8 bays of arched braces to collars alternating on wall posts and corbels. Y -braces from collars to principals. 2 tiers butt purLins and ridge piece, and 2 tiers of arched windbracing. Chancel roof is a more elaborate 4-bay version of the same roof type. FITTINGS: double-coved rood screen erected 1893 by Sir Ninian Comper. 3 by 3 bays either side of central opening, the outer bays boarded and decorated with stencilled emblems. Open bays each with 3-Light open Decorated tracery. Central entrance with 7-cusped arch. Tierceron ribbed coving east and west rising to cornice with fleurons (east side) or running foliage trail (west side). Panelled parapet with cusped ogee tracery heads. Rood with Christ on Cross flanked by St Mary and St John. One standing angel right and left. Plain 3-sided pulpit. Octagonal font on drum stem with satellite columns and Decorated tracery to the bowl panels. East window with stained glass of 1892 by Kempe & Co. Organ manual in south transept 1905 by Hills of Norwich. Included as a good, complete surviving church of the 1890s, with remarkable fittings.
Listing NGR: TL5424379782
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473981
- 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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