Parish Church of St Peter
PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1311461
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1311461
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chalfont St. Peter
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 00046 90873
Details
TQ 0090 NW CHALFONT ST PETER HIGH STREET 11/39 22.12.58 Parish Church of St Peter
II*
Built 1726. Gothicised and enlarged by G E Street in 1853 to 1854 as his first polychrome brick work. South porch 1887. On site of medieval church which collapsed in 1708. Red brick west tower with quoins, round arched belfry windows, battlements and semi-octagonal stair turret on south elevation. Four bay nave in brick with porch to south and decorated 2-light windows. Three bay chancel and south chapel in polychrome banded brickwork with stone dressed gables, angle buttresses and sill bands. Tiled roofs. Decorated windows. Interior: chancel with cusped arch braced trusses to roof. Sedilium and piscina/aumbry. Five brasses reset in north wall. Nine bay chancel screen in timber, pillar pulpit and 7 bay reredos of blind arcading. Coved flat ceiling with acanthus and geometric friezes by C B M Smith, 1966, following collapse of earlier roof. Seven funeral hatchments. Many wall monuments of C18 and C19. Stained glass by Kempe, chancel south and nave north. RCHM I 84 MON.1
Listing NGR: TQ0004690873
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 44785
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire Volume One South, (1912)
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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