Description

SO 32 NW LONGTOWN CP LONGTOWN

6/81 Church of St Peter

26.1.67

- II

Former parish church, now house. C13 core, largely restored in 1867.
Sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof. Nave with bell
cote and south porch, chancel. Nave: pair of trefoil-headed lights to
left, a similar pair and a further 2-light window with quatrefoil to right
of gabled south porch, chancel with wide lancet in south wall and similar
window in north wall, east window possibly of C14 with two trefoiled ogee
lights and quatrefoil. Interior reveals traces of earlier building with
C12 scalloped capital forming base of a piscina in the chancel, arch-braced
chancel roof has date, 1640 inscribed in north wall-plate (RCHM Vol I, p 181).

Listing NGR: SO3216329052

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26347201

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)