Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383373
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- IOE01/13592/04
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383373
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- 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:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rushbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 51369 91848
Details
RUSHBURY
SO59SW Church of St Peter
1312-1/7/191
12/11/54
GV II*
Church. Mainly C12 rebuild and extension of Saxon work, C15
upper stage of tower and re-roofing, heavily restored and
south vestry added c1855.
MATERIALS: stone rubble with ashlar dressings, rubble laid in
herringbone bond on north and south walls. Plain-tile roofs
with club pattern tiles, ornamental ridge tiles and ashlar
coped gables.
PLAN: linear plan of nave, chancel, and west tower with south
porch and south vestry.
EXTERIOR: chancel with late C12 east window of 3 stepped
lancets with roundel over. North wall with 2 C19 stepped
buttresses and 3 lancets. South wall has C19 stepped buttress
and 2 C12 lancets to right of central south vestry with twin
lancets with hoodmoulds in south gable. Mid C19 restored
lancet to left of vestry. String course at sill level and
chamfered plinth on all sides extending into east end of nave.
Nave: to left of north side is C19 stepped buttress and C12
lancet to far left, 3 C19 lancets with hoodmoulds, C12
round-headed doorway with tympanum. South wall with C19
stepped buttress to right and C12 lancet to far right, C19
paired lancet either side of south door. Doorway is
single-order pointed arched opening with shafts with restored
water-leaf capitals and hollow chamfered abaci.
3-stage C12 tower with lancet on west face of lower stage,
slit window on south face of middle stage, 2 string courses at
top stage with twin pointed arched bell-chamber openings on
each face, mid C19 stepped buttresses on north and south sides
and chamfered plinth, battlemented parapet with corner
pinnacles.
South porch: restored timber frame with hammerbeam internal
truss and enriched truss externally of moulded tie beam,
cusped traceried screen between vertical struts with collar
with trefoil over. Single purlin roof. Nail-studded south door
with strap hinges, refaced on inside.
INTERIOR: renewed plastered walls. 3-bay twin-purlin chancel
roof with 4 arch-braced hammerbeam trusses, the truss on the
nave side with ornate close-studded screen-work and enriched
arched braces, cusped windbraces in central tier of purlins.
East wall has slender shafts with water-leaf capitals flanking
the lancets. Chamfered sill band. C12 pointed arched priest's
door on south side, now vestry door.
4-bay nave roof with 4 trusses and single trenched purlin.
Trusses of arch-braced collar and tie beam type with cusped
arched braces and low vertical struts, wall posts and
brackets. Purlins with cusped windbraces above and below.
4-centred tower arch on chamfered abaci. Norman round bowl
font on C20 round base.
Listing NGR: SO5136991848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483791
- 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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