Church of St Peter

CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH WAY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1173050
Date first listed:
29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH WAY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1173050
Date first listed:
29-Mar-1963
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH WAY

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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:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH WAY

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

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Catcott
National Grid Reference:
ST 39417 39281

Details

CATCOTT CP CHURCH WAY (North side) ST33NE 9/13 Church of St Peter 29.3.63 - - I

Anglican parish church. Predominantly C15, some minor C13 work, minor C19 restoration. Coursed and squared rubble, slate roofs, freestone dressings, coped verge. Nave, chancel, south porch, north chapel of which part is now a vestry, west tower. Perpendicular. Small plain embattled 2-stage tower with diagonal buttresses on the lower stage, stair-turret, lead spirelet with windvane, single-light foiled bell-chamber windows with stone louvres, west window of paired lancets pierced through a single slab, plain west doorway with a ribbed and studded door. Three bay nave, square head 2-light windows with central mullion, 2 with foiled heads, one with label, C19 casement to light a west gallery gabled porch, plain outer door opening, wrought iron dog gates, the inside benched on a flagstone floor, plain inner door opening, ribbed and studded door. Chancel with similar fenestration to nave on south side, on north side C13 lancet; east window of 2 cinquefoiled lights with a single cinquefoil tracery light; priests door to south, possibly C13. North transeptal chapel appears mostly a C19 rebuild. Three C18 monuments on exterior walls. Low interior plastered on flagstone floors. Nave with plastered wagon ceiling; chancel with C15 wagon roof, wall plate with paterae on a hollow moulding, 3 brackets project and support 3 braces, 3 purlins, rounded bosses with foliate carving. Simple tower arch of 3 recessed orders. Late C13 plain octagonal font, circular shaft with 4 small circular attached shafts. C17 pews, plain with sliding benches to provide additonal seating; C17 west gallery, pierced splat balusters. Restored C17 pulpit and reader; C17 tester; C17 altar rails; candelabrae of C17 type. Three restored C17 painted texts to nave. Royal Arms of George III dated 1792. Two C18 coffin stools. C19 panelling to chancel; 2 C19 lamps under tower. Stainedglass of 1934 to east window. Former village stocks mounted on wall inside porch. (SANHS Proceedings, 98, 16-21).

Listing NGR: ST3941639283

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
269452
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society in Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, Vol. 98, (), 16-21

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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