Church Of St Peter

SU 06 NW CALNE WITHOUT BLACKLAND

6/5 Church of St. Peter

20.12.60

GV II*

Anglican parish church, probably C13, altered and extended 1859 and restored 1907 by C.E. Ponting. Rubble stone with stone slate roofs, coped chancel gable and gabled stone slate hung west bellcote. C13 nave and chancel, 1859 gabled addition to north of nave with north porch, 1842 chancel north vestry. Nave has plain pointed windows to west and south, of 1859, chancel has small C13 pointed window to north and south and small C13 lancet to south wall right, all with crude hoodmoulds. C14 Decorated style 2-light east window. C19 buttresses. Nave north addition has windows similar to nave, one each end, one to north and gabled north porch. Interior: original roofs to nave and chancel, arched braced collar rafters, much heavier to nave. At nave west heavy cross beam with curved uprights above supports bellcote. West gallery with Gothic panelled front of 1859. In north addition C13 bowl font on C19 base. Chancel has deep splayed window reveals. c1859 armorial glass in nave and north addition, c1884 chancel north and south windows, east window 1907 by Kempe & Tower. Screen, stalls, pulpit and organ of 1907. On gallery front hatchment of R. Smith of Blackland, died 1691. (A.E.W. Marsh, A history of the borough and town of Calne, 1903 273-5)

Listing NGR: SU0125369426