Church Of Saint Peter

KINGTON LANGLEY CHURCH LANE ST 97 NW (north side)

8/70 Church of Saint Peter

GV II

Anglican parish church, 1855-7 by Charles H. Gabriel, squared rubble stone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof, coped gables and west end ashlar gabled bellcote. Nave and south porch, chancel and north vestry/organ chamber. Lancet windows and shallow buttresses. Four-window nave with paired lancets and south side large stone-slated timber porch. Moulded and shafted pointed doorway within. West end has stepped mid-buttress with lancet each side and quatrefoil roundel above. Two-window chancel has sill- course and smaller single lancet lights, 2 to south, one to north and east end 3-light stepped-lancet window. North side projecting vestry has hipped roof carried down low on north end, west side shouldered-head doorway and two small east side lights. Interior: 4-bay nave roof of 1906 with deep arch-braced collar trusses on corbels, 2-chamfer chancel arch, the inner arch on foliate-carved capitals and 2-bay scissor truss chancel roof. Bright coloured east window 1861 and one nave south window of 1906. Stone pulpit and font. (Rev W.J. Meers, Langley Fitzurse and Draycot Cerne, 1956)

Listing NGR: ST9241876913