Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261936
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261936
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cherhill
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 01253 69426
Details
SU 06 NW CALNE WITHOUT BLACKLAND
6/5 Church of St. Peter
20.12.60
GV II*
Anglican parish church, probably C13, altered and extended 1859 and restored 1907 by C.E. Ponting. Rubble stone with stone slate roofs, coped chancel gable and gabled stone slate hung west bellcote. C13 nave and chancel, 1859 gabled addition to north of nave with north porch, 1842 chancel north vestry. Nave has plain pointed windows to west and south, of 1859, chancel has small C13 pointed window to north and south and small C13 lancet to south wall right, all with crude hoodmoulds. C14 Decorated style 2-light east window. C19 buttresses. Nave north addition has windows similar to nave, one each end, one to north and gabled north porch. Interior: original roofs to nave and chancel, arched braced collar rafters, much heavier to nave. At nave west heavy cross beam with curved uprights above supports bellcote. West gallery with Gothic panelled front of 1859. In north addition C13 bowl font on C19 base. Chancel has deep splayed window reveals. c1859 armorial glass in nave and north addition, c1884 chancel north and south windows, east window 1907 by Kempe & Tower. Screen, stalls, pulpit and organ of 1907. On gallery front hatchment of R. Smith of Blackland, died 1691. (A.E.W. Marsh, A history of the borough and town of Calne, 1903 273-5)
Listing NGR: SU0125369426
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436220
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Marsh, A E W, A History of the Borough and Town of Calne, (1903), 273-275
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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