Church Of St Peter

SU 93NE HAMBLEDON C.P. CHURCH LANE

9/123 Church of St. Peter GV II

Church. Rebuilt 1846. Coursed Bargate stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Nave and north aisle with chancel to east and gabled porch to south. Square, wood- shingled bellcote to west with double louvred-light openings on north and south faces. Pyramidal roof over the bellcote under ball and weathervane finial. Buttressed west end with quatrefoil roundel over two lancets below, all with linked hood moulds. One Decorated Style two-light window and one plate tracery window to south side under hood mouldings. Gabled offset buttress between lancet fenestration to chapel under hood mouldings with sill bands and string courses linking windows and buttresses. Corbel band to eaves. Three-light, stepped lancet to east end with human head stops to hood moulding. Trefoil entry to south porch with chamfered surround to planked door. Interior:- Chalk facing. Triple arcade to north on octagonal piers. Panelled ceiling. C19 fittings. Octagonal stone font, white and coloured marble with deep panels to octagonal bowl. Square stem with attached foliage capital shafts. A copy of the font in Bosham Church, Sussex.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) p V.C.H. Surrey (1911) Vol. III pp 42-3/4.

Listing NGR: SU9703539006