Description

SU 64 SE SHALDEN SHALDEN

3/27 Church of St Peter and
St Paul

31/07/63 II

Parish church. A rebuilding on the old site, of 1863, by J Colson. Flint walls
with stone dressings, and a tile roof. Early English style, with aisleless nave
and chancel, a north vestry, a south porch, and a bell-turret at the west end.
Plain roof, with small western bell-turret having a broach spire and sides of
shingles. Plain treatment of elevations, with stepped buttresses (diagonal at
the corners), moulded cill band (raised at the east and west ends), plinth;
the windows are lancets, some coupled beneath a quatrefoil, with 3 quatrefoils
above 3 lights at the east end, the west end having 2 tall lancets below a
central vesica window. The plain interior has decorative ½ columns to the chancel
arch. The pulpit has a framed piece of embroidery with the letters NS and date
1665. The survivor from the former church is an octagonal Perpendicular font.

Listing NGR: SU6965642101

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26386398

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)