CHURCH OF ST PETER
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1129441
- Date first listed:
- 01-Feb-1956
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Englishcombe
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 71605 62886
Details
ST 76 SW ENGLISHCOMBE
8/86
1.2.56 Church of St. Peter
I
G.V.
Parish church. Late C12; chancel altered early C14; late C15 alterations to
nave and south chapel; restored 1885 and south porch added. Consists of nave,
south chapel and south porch, central tower and chancel. Coursed, squared
freestone and rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof over nave and lead
roof over chancel. Tower of 3 stages on a plinth; thin clasping buttresses
to upper 2 stages embattled parapet and pinnacles; single-light opening with
cusped head on second stage and 2-light bell-chamber opening with pierced
lozenge panels; square projecting stairtower to first stage at north-east.
Nave: 2-light clerestorey window on south side with 4-centred heads; 3-light
C19 mullion and transom west window in a late Perpendicular style; two
3-light late Perpendicular style north windows under 4-centred heads;
buttresses with off-sets between; blocked north door in chamfered and 4-centre
headed surround. The rubble-built south chapel has a flat roof concealed
behind an ashlar embattled parapet; angle buttresses with off-sets; and a
4-light window with cinquefoil heads and under a square dripmould having
lozenge stops. Chancel: corbel table with carved human and beasts' heads,
some plain on the north side; 2-light south window with trefoil heads and
quatrefoil light above; 3-light east window of reticulated tracery, a
continuous string course rises to form angle buttresses over the windows;
angle buttresses with off-sets on east end rising to form pinnacles, embattled
gable on east end rising to form pinnacles, embattled gable between. South
porch of ashlar with an embattled parapet; moulded and pointed doorway.
Interior. South chapel has triple chamfered arch from nave; panelled
reveals to window and squint to porch formed of 2 ogival triangles; ogee-
headed piscina. The tower arches to the nave and chancel have attached half-
columns, scalloped capitals, decorative scallops to north-west and monster's
face on column at north-east; the arches above are later, double-chamfered and
pointed. On north side of tower are 2 arches of a blank arcade decorated with
3-dimensional carving of 2 rows of zig-zag with beading between; columns with
cushion, scalloped and carved head capitals; the arcade continues behind the
north-west pier of the tower. Chancel: roll moulded inner moulding to
windows; scalloped capital at north west; on east face of the tower arch is a
mediaeval statue either of the infant Christ or from a tomb. (N. Pevsner, The
Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST7160462886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 32502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
