Description

SK 63 SW TOLLERTON TOLLERTON LANE (east side)

6/131 Church of St. Peter and 1.12.65 adjoining wall

G.V. II

Parish church and adjoining wall. C13, rebuilt c.1812, 1908. In the main stucco, some red brick and ashlar. Slate and lead roofs, the nave being hipped to the east. Buttressed and, apart from vestry, set on a chamfered ashlar plinth. Tower, nave, aisles, south vestry, south mausoleum and chancel. North west single stage ashlar tower with single diagonal buttress to the north. Stepped battlements. West wall with doorway with deep stepped reveal and Cl9 door. Above, to the west, north and east sides are single openings each with 2 arched lights under a flat arch. The bell chamber has 4 triangular arched openings each with 2 similarly arched lights. To the right of the tower and slightly set back is the red brick gabled west end of the nave with bands following the line of the gable. Arched doorway with plank double door. Either side are single casements with lozenge glazing bars. Above is a single triangular arched casement with decorative glazing bars. The north aisle has 2 arched 2 light windows each with Y tracery. The clerestory has 3 two light windows, the eaves are decorated with a stepped band. The north chancel has 2 arched windows each with 2 arched lights. The east end has a single arched 3 light window with intersecting tracery. The diagonal buttresses terminate above the crow-stepped parapet in single obelisk finials. The south chancel wall has a single arched window with 2 arched lights. To the left is an attached octagonal brick buttress rising to a rendered octagonal buttress and terminating in an obelisk finial. The east wall of the embattled mausoleum has a single round arched blind panel. Attached to the left is an embattled 5 bay arcaded wall, origianlly a cloister, with chamfered arches divided by single buttresses which terminate in obelisk pinnacles. The single right bay is now blocked, is incorporated in the vestry and has a single small glazing bar casement. The wall is attached to Roclaveston Manor listed as a separate item. The south wall of the vestry has a doorway with plank door and single glazing bar casement to the left. The west wall has a single similar casement. The south wall of the aisle has 2 tall 2 light windows. The west wall is at an oblique angle and has a single small light. The clerestory corresponds to the northl. Interior. Restored 3 bay C13 nave arcades with circular columns and responds, moulded capitals, double chamfered arches and hood moulds. Moulded tower arch, part blocked and with domestic chamfered arched doorway flanked by single fixed lights. Over is a gallery being the squire's pew with fireplace. Moulded chancel arch supported on either side by single pilasters. The south chancel wall has a single blocked 2 light window to the west. To the east of the south aisle is the 1812 Pendock Barry Mausoleum. South aisle/mausoleum chamfered arch with good decorative wrought iron screen with gateway. 3 further chamfered arches with glazed ceiling. Extending between the top of the outer 2 arches are small bands of 5 bay blind arcading. Between the 2 central arches are single chamfered arched niches each with single carved figure. Below are further single larger niches each containing a single decorative memorial obelisk. On the east wall is a decorative memorial to Susanna Pendock Barry, d.1811, in whose memory the mausoleum was built. The walls are further decorated with small shields. In the south wall is a doorway to the vestry. all ashlar shaft piscina, the shaft decorated with diaper, the bowl with scrolls. Some C18 floor slabs in the chancel, single C17 floor slab in the south aisle. Remaining furniture C19 with wooden pulpit and 2 octagonal ashlar fonts. There are 6 hatchments. Under the gallery is an inner west porch with 2 rooms formed by panelled screens.

Listing NGR: SK6155834773

External Links

• St Peter's Church at Wikipedia
• St Peter's Church official website
• Wikidata Q26654834

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