St Peter'S Church Hall

ST PETER STREET 1. 1833 (West Side) SU 4829 NW 3/300 St Peter's Church Hall II 2. Set back between Jewry Street and St Peter Street with access by a passage from the latter. Built in 1792 on the site of a house previously used for Catholic worship. An early example of Gothic Revival designed by John Carter and described and illustrated in its original state in Bishop Milner's History of Winchester (Vol II p251). Converted to a hall on building of new Church, the interior has lost its furnishings and decoration whilst the exterior has also lost some of its original delicate ornament. Large rectangular hall. Red brick with flint panels to rear. The front to St Peter Street is cement rendered articulated by shelved buttresses, originally crowned by pinnacles carried up over cranellated parapet. String below parapet ornamented with rosettes and small plaques bearing symbols of St Peter. 7 pointed windows, one set above porch. 3 lights with wood tracery. Drip moulds, over on head stops. Later gabled porch to right. Pointed entrance with drop mould over, the North wall has 2 pointed windows and quatre foil to centre.

Listing NGR: SU4810929678