Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a Grade I listed building in the West Berkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 April 1967. A C15 Church.
Church of St. Peter and St. Paul
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-granite-clover
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- West Berkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 April 1967
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a 15th-century church that has undergone restorations in 1858 and 1881, with a spire added in 1896 by Alfred Waterhouse. It is constructed of rendered flint, tile and rubble with Bath stone dressings, and has an old tile roof that extends continuously over the nave and chancel. The church comprises a west tower and spire, a nave, a chancel, a south porch, and a north vestry.
The west tower has two stages with diagonal buttresses, a cornice with gargoyles and carved heads, and a parapet. The shingled, broach spire is topped with a lead finial and weathervane. A moulded arched west doorway features a boarded door and hoodmould with spiral stops. Above is a 19th-century window with two cusped lights and a hoodmould; a smaller square window with a quatrefoil light is above that. There are bellchamber openings to the north, south, and west, each with two cusped lights, and a single light opening to the east. A clock is located below the bellchamber opening to the south, beneath a small gable.
The south side of the nave has two large three-light windows with hoodmoulds and spiral stops. A 19th-century gabled porch of timber with a brick base and tiled roof stands between the windows, providing access via a moulded four-centred arch, square head with carved spandrels, and hoodmould with carved head stops. The north side has similar windows flanking a wall tablet to John Hutchins, dated 1770.
The chancel's south side presents two large three-light windows with hoodmoulds and carved stops, flanking a blocked four-centred arched doorway. The north side has a single three-light window with a hoodmould and spiral stops. The east end has diagonal buttresses and a 19th-century five-light window with panelled tracery and a returned hoodmould.
The 19th-century vestry is gabled with diagonal buttresses, featuring a two-light window to the north with a hoodmould and an arched doorway to the west.
Inside, the church has a chamfered tower arch. The nave and chancel feature a 15th-century roof with a moulded wall plate, two trusses of two collars with arch braces, double purlins, and two tiers of windbraces. Wall shafts, a rood beam and a 19th-century screen incorporate some 15th-century work at the junction of the nave and chancel. There is an octagonal Jacobean pulpit adorned with arabesques, and two late Medieval bench ends with linenfolds. Other fittings include 19th-century choir stalls by Paul Waterhouse and an octagonal stone pulpit with quatrefoil panels.
Various wall tablets are present, commemorating John Harris (1743), Andrew Baptista Gallini (1805), and Alfred Waterhouse (1905).
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