St Peter's Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 November 1990. Church.

St Peter's Church

WRENN ID
muted-gravel-candle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 November 1990
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St Peter's Church is a Grade II* listed building featuring a small chancel, an aisleless nave, and a south porch. The church has a slate roof from the 19th century, with walls made of lias limestone that include some herringbone masonry and freestone window dressings. The gables are coped and topped with wheel cross finials.

On the south elevation, the chancel has a trefoil single-light window to the right, with a similar window on the opposite side to the north, and a lower square-headed window; there is no east window. The nave has a larger window to the right of the porch with two trefoil lights, which is in a 14th-century style but restored in the 19th century. To the left of the porch is a two-light window. The porch features a Tudor arch, stone seats, and a 19th-century tie-beam roof. The entrance doorway to the church has a three-centred arch. The west gable has a belcote from the 19th century at its apex. Between the porch and the right window is a reset tombstone commemorating the deaths of the Davies family of Cogan. The north elevation of the nave has no openings, and the central section is set back with herringbone masonry.

The church is set in a walled churchyard, which includes the base of a medieval cross to the south of the porch, featuring a square shape with a chamfered top and a circular socket.

Inside, the nave has a 19th-century arch-braced roof, while the chancel has a collar and tie-beam roof. Much of the old plaster remains on the walls, except for the west wall, which has a blocked square-headed window. The chancel arch is low and narrow, round-headed with imposts. Above the chancel arch, there is old plaster with faint traces of wall painting. A fine bronze reredos, dedicated on 6 November 1898, takes the form of a traceried screen featuring the Transfiguration with Christ and Prophets, along with three Disciples; the sides display the arms of Bute and Corbett supported by angels. The walls are panelled in natural oak, with wooden benches built over stone seats set into the north and west walls, as well as the west end of the south wall of the nave. The wooden floor is said to cover old cobbles, and a 17th-century tombstone of the Herbert family remains under a trapdoor in the wooden flooring near the chancel step, with other tombstones believed to be beneath the floor. There is a mutilated font, possibly from the 14th century, located in the nave, featuring an octagonal plinth, a cylindrical base, and remnants of an octagonal bowl.

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