Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HORNBLOTTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058789
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HORNBLOTTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1058789
- Date first listed:
- 02-Jun-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HORNBLOTTON
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, HORNBLOTTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Bradley (DET)
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 59149 34151
Details
ST53SE WEST BRADLEY CP HORNBLOTTON 10/182 Church of St Peter
2.6.61
GV 1
Anglican Parish Church. 1872-4 by Sir T G Jackson, for Rector Geoffrey Thring. Has stone, Doulting dressings, tile roofs with stone tiles to the eaves, coped verges with floral finials, tile hung tower with a timber sub-structure to the upper part, tiled broached spire with a pennant; glazed wooden arcade directly below, a small clock inset to the west side. Geometric and Early English style of late C14-early C15. Nave, south porch, combined vestry and organ loft, chancel, west tower. The tower with a 2-light west window, lancets on its north and south sides; recessed west door between buttresses. Two bay nave, 2-light windows, buttresses; 2-bay chancel with lancets; shafted 5-light east window; stopped labels. Porch with columns to outer door opening, plank door with elaborate strap hinges. Interior as designed and complete; covered in fine sgraffito executed in strawberry and cream plaster; sunflowers, branches, texts and figures on all walls. Over west door, Isiah and Jeremiah; under tower, Moses; over chancel arch, The Annunciation; in chancel, 2 angels; in the porch, texts. Tile floors, those to chancel pavement glazed and patterned. Collar truss and king-post roof to nave on corbels, wagon roof to chancel. Chancel arch in Early English style. Alabaster reredos with figures of the Evangelists on enamel tiles. Inlaid oak pulpit lectern, altar and choir stalls; altar rails and pews co-eval. Narrow doorway to the vestry with a blank cusped head incorporating a carved relief of Christ, inlaid door; inside a C15 piscina and a C18 monument incorporated from the old church. Norman tub font under the tower. Stained glass to chancel, east window The Crucifiction of 1874, west window 1874, by Powell and Sons who were also responsible for chancel pavement. C19 organ. The building remains virtually unaltered and a rare example of Jackson's church design. (Clarke B F L, Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century, 1938; Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5915334154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267655
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset (1958),
Clarke, B F L, Church Builders of the Nineteenth Century (1938),
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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