Church of St Peter is a Grade I listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 November 1954. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- high-plaster-coral
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 November 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church that dates from the 11th to the 14th century and was restored around 1850 by T.H. Wyatt. It is constructed of rubble and dressed sandstone with ashlar detailing and has plain tile roofs. The church features a nave, chancel, north transept, south aisle, and a crossing tower, originally designed in a cruciform layout. The nave and north transept were built around 1050, while the Early English tower and the south aisle were added in the 14th century, with a 19th-century porch.
On the exterior, the east and west walls of the north transept and the north wall of the nave showcase pilaster strips in long-and-short work. There is a blocked doorway featuring coved impost-blocks and a roll-moulded hoodmould supported by long-and-short pilasters, with a tablet above that displays a raised cross and an enriched pilaster corbel. The exterior south wall of the chancel has two cusped and moulded canopies above weathered effigies, along with two plain canopies on the south aisle.
Inside, the church has a 14th-century nave arcade, a piscina with a small ogee-headed canopy, and a 14th-century octagonal font. There are several memorials, including a brass for Thomas Atkinson from 1657, a tablet with arms and cherubs likely dedicated to John Thyne Armiger from 1717, a tablet for Elizabeth Swanne from 1613, and another for Samuel Newborough from 1718. The chancel arch is adorned with carved wood figures.
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