Description

TA 20 SE HOLTON LE CLAY CHURCH WALK

1/24 Church of
St. Peter
9.9.67
G.V. II*

Parish church. C11, C13, C14, C16, 1850 rebuilding. Coursed and
squared ironstone and limestone rubble, brown and red brick,
plain grey concrete tiled roofs. Western tower, nave, chancel.
The square unbuttressed tower has extended footings, single
chamfered offset to belfry, embattled parapet and gargoyles. In
the south side is a small rectangular light and the belfry stage
has paired C14 2 light ogee headed cusped openings. In the west
wall is a blocked door with a round head and in the blocking a
C13 lancet. Rectangular light to middle stage. The nave is in
part built of massive square stones and in the north wall is a
blocked C16 4 centred arched doorway and a C14 3 light window
with ogee heads to the lights and chamfered square surround. The
upper part of chancel and east wall of nave were replaced in red
brick c.1850. The C19 east window has 3 lights. On thesouth
side the chamfered reveal only survives of a window in the
chancel. In the nave south wall is a C19 rectangular window with
hood and a C14 window matching that to the north. The south
doorway is single chamfered with moulded hood, recut in C19. The
pitch of an earlier nave roof is visible in the east wall of the
tower. Interior. The C11 tower arch is tall and narrow with
rounded head, plain imposts. In the south reveal is a reused
piece of C10 sculpture having 2 panels of interlace. The chancel
arch is C19, double chamfered with single imposts. In the east
wall of the nave is a reset piscina with reset C13 cusped head.
All fittings are Cl9 and C20 apart from the C12 tub font with
cable moulding round the rim and a panel of chevrons running into
low relief blank intersecting arcading.

Listing NGR: TA2865102780

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Peter at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17548772

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)