Description

SX5447 AND SX5447 NEWTON AND NOSS NOSS MAYO
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29/3/60 Church of St Peter

II*

Parish church. 1882 by St Aubyn. Pink rock-faced coursed rubble with granite
dressings. Scantle slate roofs with granite coping to gable ends which have apex
crosses. Perpendicular style.
Nave and chancel in one. Long north and south aisles with three-light Perpendicular
panel tracery windows. Five-light Perpendicular east window. South porch with
moulded two-centred arch, carved spandrels and label.
West tower of three storeys with string courses and moulded plinth. Buttresses with
set-offs set back from the corners. Embattled parapet. Polygonal stair turret over
north west corner with battlements. Three-light Perpendicular traceried
bell-openings. Four-light Perpendicular west window over west doorway with shields
in the spandrels.
Built on steep site with semi-circular conically roofed vestry on lower, north, side,
overlooking Newton Creek on the estuary of the River Yealm.
Interior: four-bay north and south arcades plus another bay in chancel to arcade
chapels. Plastered walls with murals. Unceiled wagon roofs with carved bosses and
with angels in the chancel. Elaborately carved contemporary furnishings including
choir stalls, benches, screens, pulpit, lectern, font, altar rail and painted
reredos.

Listing NGR: SX5499447753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Peter at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17534593

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)