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Latitude: 51.1653 / 51°9'55"N
Longitude: -1.4415 / 1°26'29"W
OS Eastings: 439146
OS Northings: 140823
OS Grid: SU391408
Mapcode National: GBR 736.VRS
Mapcode Global: VHC2Z.YZS1
Plus Code: 9C3W5H85+49
Entry Name: Church of St Peter and Holy Cross
Listing Date: 21 March 1984
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1179499
English Heritage Legacy ID: 139713
Location: Wherwell, Test Valley, Hampshire, SP11
County: Hampshire
Civil Parish: Wherwell
Built-Up Area: Wherwell
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: Wherwell St Peter and Holy Cross
Church of England Diocese: Winchester
WHERWELL CHURCH STREET
116/9/33 Church of St Peter
and Holy Cross
- II*
Parish church, being a replacement of a double-aisled medieval building, which may have been part of the adjoining Benedictine Nunnery. 1856-8, by Woodyer. Nave and aisles of 4 bays, chancel, north vestry, western bell turret, and south porch. Tiled roof, continued above the aisles without a clerestory. Flint walls with stone dressings; buttresses, geometrical windows, cill banding to the chancel, plinth. Within, the north aisle at the west end has some built-in sculptured fragments, and there is an effigy of a nun on a modern base, an altar tomb of 1551 (to Sir Owen West with early Renaissance details, and a medieval corbel made from part of a Saxon cross (with interlaced carving).
Listing NGR: SU3913140918
This text is from the original listing, and may not necessarily reflect the current setting of the building.
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