Description

ST 92 NE SWALLOWCLIFFE CHURCH HILL (north side)

3/137 Church of St. Peter

6.1.66

GV II*

Anglican parish church. 1842-43 by G. G. Scott and W. B. Moffatt. Limestone ashlar and dressed stone, tiled roofs. Plan: nave, south and north aisles, south tower over entrance, south transept, chancel. Neo-Norman. Double-chamfered round-arched doorway with scalloped capitals to shafts and hoodmould, on south side of 3- stage tower. Tower has angle buttresses, string courses and single round-arched window with pair of shafts to second stage, bellstage has 2-light round-arched louvred opening with attached shafts, Lombard frieze below corbel table to battlemented parapet. Square stair turret in east angle has cylindrical upper stage with conical roof. South transept has angle buttresses, round-arched window with shafts and round-arched niche over, east window of transept has round-arched window with hoodmould, corbel table to eaves, coped verge to gabled front. Chancel has 3 round-arched lancets with hoodmoulds to south and north sides, corbel tables to eaves, east end has angle buttresses and group of 3 round-arched windows with attached shafts supporting hoodmoulds. North aisle has 4 round-arched windows with hoodmoulds, intermediate pilaster buttresses, corbel table to eaves of nave roof. West end of nave has round-arched window flanked by blind arches with attached shafts, and hoodmoulds, niche over with shafts, aisles have one round-arched west window. South side of south aisle to left of tower has one round-arched window with hoodmould. Interior: Porch at base of tower has chamfered round-arched inner doorway with attached shafts, east wall has chamfered shouldered doorway to stairs, west side has 3 open round-arches on columns to recess containing recumbent C14 knight, Sir Thomas West, brought from earlier church in village. Four-bay nave has braced king-post tie-beam roof with arch-braced collar trusses to half-bays. North aisle has arcade of 4 roll-moulded round arches on cylindrical piers with transitional-style capitals, south aisle has 4 round arches on octagonal piers with scrolled floral carved capitals. Lean-to aisle roofs. Flagstone floors throughout. South transept has 3-bay arch-braced collar roof, contains vestry and organ. Roll-moulded chancel arch on stylised stiff-leaf corbels, plain 3- bay arch-braced collar roof on stone corbels. Fine Neo-Norman cylindrical font with interlaced round-arches on shafts, at west end. Stone Neo-Norman pulpit with 4 open arches, readers desk has 2 open arches. Small C18 font with octagonal pedestal in north aisle. C19 pews in nave. Some good glass; west window depicting the Baptism of Christ, by H. Hughes of London, 1981, fine south transept glass to Rev. J. H. Samler, died 1882, glass in east window to Sidney Lord Herbert died 1877. Built at cost of £1260, to replace a Medieval Church beside the stream. (Church and Parish Guide by Cmdr. S. Jenkins; N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Wiltshire, 1975.)

Listing NGR: ST9636827115

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