Church Of St Peter And Gate-Piers, Gates, Wall And Railing To South West

SW 83 SW MYLOR ST PETER'S ROAD, (north side), Flushing 6/273 Church of Saint Peter and gate-piers, gates, wall and railing to south west GV II

Anglican church including gate-piers, gates wall and railings. Built 1841, and restored in 1871, 1893 and 1906. Designed by George Wightwick of Plymouth. Stucco walls with freestone dressings to window openings and bellcote. Dry slate roof with bellcote over south west gable end and semi-circular apse at north east gable end. Rectangular aisless plan with original porch at south west end, vestry (1871) on left and original chancel apse at north east end. Romanesque style. Single storey. Principal original door and window openings are ordered, and windows, 1 to south west gable and 3 to each side wall, have original cast iron glazing bars with integral fanlights. South west front originally symmetrical, has flat roofed porch with plinth and parapet cornice. Central doorway with hood; circa late C19 ledged doors and carved figure of Saint Peter in tympanum. Further doorway to right- hand side wall of porch and twin gabled vestry adjoining to left of porch, each gable with tall narrow round-headed window. Main south west gable end has hoodmould over central gable window and recessed panel to either side, with narrower window in each and sloping machicolated cornice over. Gable is surmounted by eared gabled bellcote with single bell hung within round-headed opening. Interior: ordered freestone chancel arch; braced tie beam roof structure, ceiled at collar level; plaster blind reredos arcade with 4-leaf enrichments to cornice; and 2 coloured glass windows, one of 1882 and the other 1884. Entrance gateway with square pyramidal capped granite posts with scrolled wrought iron overthrow to central lamp, and pair of finialled iron gates flanked by low brick granite coped walls surmounted by wrought iron railings similar to gate. Despite being reworked in the late C19 this building retains much of Wightwicks original detail.

Listing NGR: SW8074534013