Description

SO 61 SE NEWNHAM HIGH STREET
(east side)
2/30
Church of St Peter
10.1.55 (formerly listed under
General)

- II

Anglican parish church. Architect: Waller and Son. Principally 1881 but incor-
porating some C14 work in tower. Rubble, plain tile roofs. Three stage tower
at west end of nave and adjoining wide south aisle, deep north porch and tran-
septal north chapel, shallow chancel. Crenellated tower with squat spire and
small spire to stair vice. Windows generally in C14 'decorated' style; remains
of Norman window built in by north door. Interior: nave in four bays, arch-
braced truss roof, south arcade 4-bay cylindrical red granite columns with
C13 type leaf carved capitals; triple shafts in granite to corbels at chancel
arch; and short shafts on floriated corbels to chancel roof. C19 stone pulpit,
wrought iron sanctuary rail, tile floors. Tower arch fitted with C20 panelling.
Ancient font bowl, circular, unlined; one of group of Norman fonts in the
county. The present church is on the site of a C14 building, which in its
turn replaced an earlier church lower in the town. The new church of 1875,
by Waller and Son of Gloucester, was almost completely destroyed by fire
shortly afterwards, but rebuilt by Waller, 1881.

Listing NGR: SO6904611504

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26481659

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)