Church of St Peter Including Gate Piers,gates and Retaining Wall at East and West Ends
Church of St Peter, Highfield Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203036
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter Including Gate Piers,gates and Retaining Wall at East and West Ends
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Highfield Road
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203036
- Date first listed:
- 12-Mar-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter Including Gate Piers,gates and Retaining Wall at East and West Ends
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, Highfield 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.
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, Highfield Road
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ilfracombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 52005 47412
Details
ILFRACOMBE
SS5147 HIGHFIELD ROAD
853-1/6/85 (South side)
12/03/90 Church of St Peter including gate
piers, gates & retaining wall at E &
W ends
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGHFIELD ROAD
(South side)
Church of St Peter)
II
Anglican parish church. 1902 by GH Fellowes-Prynne.
Rough-faced, squared stone rubble with details and quoins in
dressed limestone (probably Bath stone). Red tiled roof with
some decorative ridge tiles.
Plan consists of nave, aisles, chancel and south chancel
chapel, with very shallow north and south transepts; tower and
entrance-porch at west end of north aisle. A north chancel
chapel appears to have been demolished.
Built in a wide range of medieval styles, from Norman to
Perpendicular. Main features of north front (facing Highfield
Road) are a pair of gables to the transept, each with a
3-light traceried window.
Also a 2-stage square tower (never completed) with big
angle-buttresses; doorway with carved wooden canopy supported
by stone angles, figure of St Peter in niche above. 5-light
traceried east and west windows. Foundation stone under west
window carved with date and architect's name.
INTERIOR has nave arcades with Norman columns having twisted
fluting on the shafts, these supporting pointed,
double-chamfered arches. Low, carved stone chancel screen.
Organ with Gothic casing. Good carved choir stalls, pulpit
(1903 by Florence Heaton Toller) and font (lime-stone with
red and green marble columns).
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: at each end of the front curtilage-wall
is a pair of square, stone rubble gate piers with lumps of
quartz on top. Western piers have iron gates with scrollwork
and keys of St Peter. Eastern piers have wooden gateposts with
gabled tops and crosses in round panels.
At the east and west ends of the curtilage, continuing north
on to the Highfield Road frontage, are retaining walls of
slatestone laid in tiers, herringbone fashion.
Listing NGR: SS5200547412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 390225
- 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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