Church of St Peter

CHURCH OF ST PETER, COMMERCIAL ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1092038
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1953
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, COMMERCIAL ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1092038
Date first listed:
14-Jul-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
08-Oct-1981
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, COMMERCIAL ROAD

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, COMMERCIAL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Southampton (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SU 41525 12346

Details

1. COMMERCIAL ROAD 5239 Church of St Peter (formerly listed as St Peter's Church) SU 4112 1/103 14.7.53

II

2. 1845-6 by O. B. Carter. Neo-Norman style, built of coursed rubble with slate roof. Polyconal apse. South porch. North-west tower copied from Sompting Sussex with a four gabled Rhenish top. Six bay nave, with shallow buttresses separating each bay. Large round-framed windows. Interior has hammerbeam type roof. Wooden west gallery supported on columns. Neo-Norman font and pulpit.

Listing NGR: SU4255313582

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Legacy System number:
135796
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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