Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1396586
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-2003
- 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:
- 1396586
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bideford
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 45763 26252
Reasons for Designation
Yes List
Details
BIDEFORD
842-1/0/10010 EAST THE WATER 05-NOV-03 Church of St Peter
II Church; chapel-of-ease for the parish church. 1890. Dressed stone rubble. Double Roman clay tile roof with stone-coped gables with cross finials. PLAN: Broad nave with large south porch, chancel with polygonal apse and vestries on the north side. Early English Victorian Gothic style. EXTERIOR: The nave has 2-light plate-tracery north and south wondows, the south in arched recesses, between buttresses with weathered set-offs, the easternmost of the south windows has been converted into a doorway. Triple-lancet at west end with stone bellcote over gable with buttresses and small obelisk-like finial surmounted by iron cross. Chancel has lancets and polygonal apse with cross-gables. Large gabled stone porch on south side. INTERIOR: Wide nave open to arch-braced timber roof, the trusses carried down to stone corbels; the chancel roof with intersecting trusses to apse. Large moulded chancel arch. Furnishings intact, including benches, choir stalls, organ, ornate wrought-iron screen and pulpit; stained glass by Hardman and from Arthur J. Dix's workshop; unaltered vestrey and choir vestrey. A good example of a late C19 chapel-of-ease in the Victorian Gothic style.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490724
- 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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