Parish Church of St Peter

PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1126584
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1126584
Date first listed:
25-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Parish Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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

County:
Cambridgeshire
District:
Fenland (District Authority)
Parish:
Wimblington
National Grid Reference:
TL 41604 92074

Details

TL 49 SW WIMBLINGTON CHURCH STREET (East Side) 2/17 Parish thurch of 25.10.51 St Peter II Parish Church, 1874. By Thomas Henry Wyatt (1807-80). Coursed limestone rubble with ironstone bands and limestone dressings. Plain tile roof and spire. Cruciform plan without aisles, crossing tower of three stages with clock surmounted by gabled pediment on west face of spire with tile hung covering. Polygonal apse. Gabled south porch with two centred arch, shafted jambs, and stiff leaf foliage to capitals. Three two-light nave windows in two-centred arches with septfoils. Rose window with qua.trefoils to tower and pair of two trefoiled light belfry windows. Interior: Double crossing arches springing from stiff-leaf-corbels, north and south arches of two bays with paired piers each with stiff-leaf-capitals and common abaci. Wimblington became a separate parish from Doddington in 1868. Pevsner: §uildings of England p488 ~.~~

Listing NGR: TL4160492074

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Legacy System number:
48507
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 488

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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.

Ordnance survey map of Parish Church of St Peter

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