Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1093367
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1093367
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH 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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Test Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hurstbourne Tarrant
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 38524 52990
Details
SU 3852 HURSTBOURNE TARRANT CHURCH STREET, (North Side)
10/84 Church of St. Peter 20.12.60 GV I
Parish church. Late C12, C13, C15, and restoration of 1853. Transitional nave and aisles of 4 bays, Early English chancel (virtually rebuilt in C19), timber-framed tower set within the west end of the nave, south porch (1908). Low-pitched lead roof, tiled porch, shingled tower with broach spire. Walls of flint and rubble with stone dressings; lancets, coupled lancets, 2 Geometrical and 1 Perpendicular window, 2 C14 clear-story windows, some buttresses. Within, the pointed arcade rests on cylindrical columns, the font is C13 (with a C17 wood cover) the main frame of the tower incorporates parts of the screen, there are prescription boards above the chancel arch and a Royal Coat of Arms of George III attached to the tower-frame. There is a Jacobean pulpit, 2 old communion rails, an old south door, and several wall monuments. A most interesting feature is a set of medieval wall paintings in the north aisle, the chief having the subject of 'The three living and three dead'.
Listing NGR: SU3832153091
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 139805
- 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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