Church Of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 January 1987. Church.
Church Of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-spandrel-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 January 1987
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church located on Station Road in Chepping Wycombe, formerly serving as a chapel of ease. The nave was constructed between 1788 and 1790, with a southern projection added in 1804 and a northern projection in 1835. The chancel and vestries were built from 1901 to 1903 by G.H. Fellowes Prynne, and a western porch was added in the 20th century. The older sections of the church are made of red and vitreous brick with slate roofs, while the chancel and vestries are built of red brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. The western end of the nave features a gabled brick porch.
Both the northern and southern sides of the church have projections, each with two hipped roof spurs and three bays of fenestration. The windows are semi-circular arched with lunettes above and are all leaded. The northern projection includes gauged window arches, moulded brick eaves, and two 20th-century brick buttresses, while the southern projection features dentil eaves and ungauged arches. The chancel is designed in the Perpendicular style, with cusped lancets on the north and south sides and a five-light traceried east window with a four-centred arch. Stone hoodmoulds with carved foliage stops adorn the windows. The vestries are in a similar style, featuring traceried windows, with the northern vestry currently used as a chapel.
Inside, the north, south, and west sides of the nave are lined with two-storey wooden colonnades and galleries that have panelled balustrades and Doric columns. The plaster ceiling cornice is decorated with acanthus, rosettes, and modillion ornamentation. The chancel arch is triple chamfered, and there are segmental arches leading to the north and south vestries. A low pierced stone screen separates the chancel from the nave.
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