Church Of St Peter And Holy Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. A Victorian Church. 3 related planning applications.

Church Of St Peter And Holy Cross

WRENN ID
dusk-shingle-fen
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Test Valley
Country
England
Date first listed
21 March 1984
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Source
Historic England listing

Description

WHERWELL CHURCH STREET

116/9/33 Church of St Peter and Holy Cross

  • II*

Parish church, being a replacement of a double-aisled medieval building, which may have been part of the adjoining Benedictine Nunnery. 1856-8, by Woodyer. Nave and aisles of 4 bays, chancel, north vestry, western bell turret, and south porch. Tiled roof, continued above the aisles without a clerestory. Flint walls with stone dressings; buttresses, geometrical windows, cill banding to the chancel, plinth. Within, the north aisle at the west end has some built-in sculptured fragments, and there is an effigy of a nun on a modern base, an altar tomb of 1551 (to Sir Owen West with early Renaissance details, and a medieval corbel made from part of a Saxon cross (with interlaced carving).

Listing NGR: SU3913140918

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