Parish Church Of St Peter

TQ 0090 NW CHALFONT ST PETER HIGH STREET 11/39 22.12.58 Parish Church of St Peter

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Built 1726. Gothicised and enlarged by G E Street in 1853 to 1854 as his first polychrome brick work. South porch 1887. On site of medieval church which collapsed in 1708. Red brick west tower with quoins, round arched belfry windows, battlements and semi-octagonal stair turret on south elevation. Four bay nave in brick with porch to south and decorated 2-light windows. Three bay chancel and south chapel in polychrome banded brickwork with stone dressed gables, angle buttresses and sill bands. Tiled roofs. Decorated windows. Interior: chancel with cusped arch braced trusses to roof. Sedilium and piscina/aumbry. Five brasses reset in north wall. Nine bay chancel screen in timber, pillar pulpit and 7 bay reredos of blind arcading. Coved flat ceiling with acanthus and geometric friezes by C B M Smith, 1966, following collapse of earlier roof. Seven funeral hatchments. Many wall monuments of C18 and C19. Stained glass by Kempe, chancel south and nave north. RCHM I 84 MON.1

Listing NGR: TQ0004690873