Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 August 1955. Outbuilding.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
rusted-spandrel-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 August 1955
Type
Outbuilding
Source
Cadw listing

Description

The church consists of nave with integral chancel, west bellcote and north porch. The masonry is mostly in local fine grained pale grey and cream limestone with some coarse red sandstone, the dressings are largely of sandstone and conglomerate, with coarse sandy yellow Bath limestone for some of the Victorian replacements. Coursed rubble predominates, but the north wall of the nave and the east wall of the porch are in herringbone work and are probably of Norman date. The nave and chancel are in line and the same width. The north wall has, from the left, a 2-light Y-tracery window which was fitted in 1874 and may be the original east window; a stepped buttreess of 1874; a single light trefoil headed C13 window; and the gabled porch which has no particularly datable feature other than the herringbone work and is probably a late medieval rebuild; it has an elaborate trefoiled niche over the inner door. The west gable has a blocked doorway which was found in the restoration and a slit window above, Victorian bellcote on the gable above this. The south wall, from the left, has three 2-light Perpendicular windows with flat headed dripmoulds, the central one is medieval, the others are Victorian; a Norman type priest's door with chevron frieze and ropemould, which may be wholly Victorian work; finally the south window of the chancel which is rectangular headed containing trefoil tracery of uncertain date, probably early C20. The east gable has a Victorian 3-light window with intersecting tracery and dripmould over. Coped gable with cross finial.

There is a probably early C16 (said to date from 1467) rood screen with battlemented cresting. This has been much restored, and given a C20 dado, and only a proportion of the timber is medieval. The medieval part consists of a central doorway with 4-centred head supported on slim shafts with moulded caps and bases, and with carving of intersecting arches and trefoil heads in the spandrels, and on either side three bays, each of two trefoil lights with quatrefoils between the heads and pierced and cusped spandrels. The font has a medieval bowl mounted on a Victorian base, and there is a medieval altar slab set on a rebuilt base. There are also two medieval grave slabs set in the floor of the chancel, one is supposedly Urien of St. Pierre, with a lion's head carving built into the south wall. The other internal fittings are Victorian. Pews with carved ends. Chandeliers. Some good C18 wall monuments to the Lewis family of St Pierre. Arch braced collar beam roof which may be C16.

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