Church of St. Peter is a Grade II listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 April 1967. Church.
Church of St. Peter
- WRENN ID
- white-quoin-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 April 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Peter is a church built between 1857 and 1861 by John Johnson in a Neo-Gothic style. It is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings, featuring angle buttresses, carved footstones, coped parapets, and tiled roofs with ridge cresting. There is a tile-hung bellcote on the ridge to the west, which has cusped openings on each side, along with a shingled broach spire and a weathervane. The church exhibits a rich Decorated style with mainly geometric tracery and includes a nave, south porch, north and south transeptal chapels, chancel, and vestry.
The nave consists of two bays and has two-light windows with hoodmoulds, a large four-light window to the west, and a one-light opening with a hoodmould above in the base of the bellcote, flanked by carved stone dressings. The south doorway is moulded with a hoodmould and carved stops. There is a gabled timber south porch on a low wall, which is two bays deep with arched panels, decorated bargeboards, and two low gates.
The south transeptal chapel features a two-light west window, a three-light south window, and a door to the east with a carved tympanum. The north transeptal chapel has a three-light north window and a trefoiled light in the gable above, along with a Caernarvon arched doorway and a two-light window to the west.
In the chancel, there are four arches of blank arcading resting on corbels to the south, two trefoil-headed lancets, a three-light east window with intersecting tracery, and a trefoil light in the gable above. The vestry includes a two-light window to the east, a door, and a three-light window under the gable to the north.
The interior features two bay arcades to the transeptal chapels with marble quatrefoil-section piers, foliated capitals, moulded and carved arches, and hoodmoulds. The chancel has a moulded arch on marble piers, shafted windows to the east and south, and short wall columns on corbelled heads supporting the roof. The church has wagon roofs throughout, with the chancel roof painted. There are 19th-century fittings, including a reredos and an octagonal font on marble columns.
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