Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PETERS IN THE FIELDS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391584
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PETERS IN THE FIELDS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391584
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, ST PETERS IN THE FIELDS
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, ST PETERS IN THE FIELDS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Essex
- District:
- Braintree (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 75743 23550
Details
691/0/10030 ST PETER'S-IN-THE-FIELDS 28-APR-06 Bocking St Peter's church
II Church. 1897. By J.T. Micklethwaite. Stock brick rendered with pebble dash and red brick dressings with a plain-tile roof. Gothic style, its simplicity partly due to lack of funds which meant that the aisles, tower and north chapel were never built. Present plan of nave and chancel in one with S vestry and N and S porches. East end has a 5-light window with Decorated tracery and the`N wall two small windows, a projecting arch, 5 quatrefoils as a clerestory, and N porch. The lower part of the wall is stock brick. The S wall has a 3-light window with Reticulated tracery in the chancel over the vestry, then various small windows in the base of the intended tower with a bellcote on the aspex of its roof, further windows, the S porch, and clerestory quatrefoils. The W end has a 5-light window with intersecting tracery. INTERIOR. In complete contrast to the exterior this is richly furnished. The E window has stained glass by Kempe and Co. of 1911, and below is a richly carved reredos of 1913. The elaborate screen and altar rails were made by Ernest Beckwith of Coggeshall to the designs of Wykeham Chancellor. The choir stalls and pulpit are also fine. Complete set of pews in the nave. The effect of this is mostly realised by the completion of the intended aisle arcades and by a boarded wagon roof similar to that in the chancel. At the W end is a stone font with, in the W window above, very fine stained glass, using marbled glass, of 1928, by Leonard Walker, the whole producing a very rich and unusual effect. A recent addition has been a bronze statue of St. Peter by John Doubleday. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE. This late Victorian church by a distinguished architect of the period, although unfinished, has a spacious interior which reflects his intentions and which was richly fitted in the earlier C20, including fine woodwork and stained glass, a particularly unusual and fine feature being the W window of 1928.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 494153
- 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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