Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, STATION ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332132
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, STATION ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332132
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, STATION 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, STATION ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chepping Wycombe
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 90019 90486
Details
CHEPPING WYCOMBE STATION ROAD SU 99 SW (LOUDWATER) 3/22 Church of St. Peter - - II Parish church, formerly chapel of ease. Nave is 1788-90, with S. projection added 1804, N. projection 1835, chancel and vestries 1901-3 by G.H. Fellowes Prynne, and C20 W. porch. Older parts are of red and vitreous brick with slate roofs; chancel and vestries are of red brick with stone dressings and tiled roof W. end of nave has gabled brick porch. N. and S. sides have projections, each with 2 hipped roof spurs and 3-bay fenestration. Semi-circular arched windows with lunettes above, all leaded. N. projection has gauged window arches, moulded brick eaves and 2 C20 brick buttresses; S. projection has dentil eaves and ungauged arches. Chancel is in Perpendicular style with cusped lancets to N. and S., and 5-light traceried E. window with 4-centred arch. Stone hoodmoulds with carved foliage stops. Vestries in similar style with traceried windows, the N. vestry now used as chapel. Interior: N., S., and W., sides of nave have 2-storey wooden colonnades and galleries with panelled balustrades. Doric columns. Plaster ceiling cornice with acanthus, rosette and modillion ornament. Triple chamfered chancel arch, segmental arches to N. and S. vestries. Low pierced stone screen to chancel. (Home Counties Magazine, Vol. III, 1901)
Listing NGR: SU9001990486
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 46906
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Home Counties Magazine in Home Counties Magazine, Vol. 3, (1901)
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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