Description

TQ 03NW HASCOMBE C.P. SCHOOL LANE

10/170 Church of
St. Peter

GV II*

Church. 1864 by Henry Woodyer. Rough-coursed galleted sandstone with ashlar
dressings; plain tiled roof with wood shingled broach spire and bellcote. Nave
and north aisle with independently roofed chapel to south, bellcote to west,
chancel to east, vestry to north east and porch to south west. Offset buttresses
and paired lancet fenestration in C13 style, with smooth ashlar surrounds to
windows. Quatrefoil panels between windows on south side. Diagonal and clasping
buttresses to chapel. Plinth and sill course to four "shouldered" lancets under
continuous hood moulding. Trefoil window and door to west end of chapel with door
in shallow forward break. Large 3-light and trefoil windows to east and west of
the chapel. Coved eaves on chancel with apsidal east end. Four windows to south,
two windows to north, either side of easternmost buttress containing window. C20
vestry to north of chancel. Three paired and one single lancet to north side of
church. West front:- Three-light window with three blind quatrefoils and nook
shafts. Three louvred openings to each face of bellcote above. Gabled porch to
south with braced entrance posts and V-strut roof. Arched openings to sides.
Roll moulding around south door.
Interior:- Unusually complete mid-Victorian scheme of decoration. Nave walls
painted with the "miraculous draught of fishes" in 1890 in gold and blue.
Patterned tile floor on nave. Detached nook shafts and rear arches to window
surrounds. Richly decorated chancel and apse. Roof rafters cusped and gilded,
deep east lancet made up into a rich composition with the wall surface adjoining
used as a reredos, mosaic and marble inlaid. Candleholder sconces in shape of
angels with stencilled decoration and rich decoration of soffit of chancel arch.
Font - 1690, from the old church. Square stone bowl on square stem. C15 Rood
screen, restored in 1864 and decorated by Hardman and Powell. Stained glass
also by Hardman and Powell. Monument - West Wall. Dedicated to
William Middlefield, died 1785. By T. Hews Neo-classical style. Grey marble
ground with flanking Cherubim and mourning female figure in Classical dress.
Inscription panel below with scrolls and garlands flanking oval relief.

PEVSNER: Buildings of England, Surrey (1971) pp.302-3.
V.C.H. Surrey (1967 Ed) Vol. III pp.102-4.

Listing NGR: TQ0018139542

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548647

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