Description

KINGTON LANGLEY CHURCH LANE
ST 97 NW (north side)

8/70 Church of Saint Peter

GV II

Anglican parish church, 1855-7 by Charles H. Gabriel, squared
rubble stone with ashlar dressings, stone slate roof, coped gables
and west end ashlar gabled bellcote. Nave and south porch, chancel
and north vestry/organ chamber. Lancet windows and shallow
buttresses. Four-window nave with paired lancets and south side
large stone-slated timber porch. Moulded and shafted pointed
doorway within. West end has stepped mid-buttress with lancet each
side and quatrefoil roundel above. Two-window chancel has sill-
course and smaller single lancet lights, 2 to south, one to north
and east end 3-light stepped-lancet window. North side projecting
vestry has hipped roof carried down low on north end, west side
shouldered-head doorway and two small east side lights.
Interior: 4-bay nave roof of 1906 with deep arch-braced collar
trusses on corbels, 2-chamfer chancel arch, the inner arch on
foliate-carved capitals and 2-bay scissor truss chancel roof.
Bright coloured east window 1861 and one nave south window of 1906.
Stone pulpit and font.
(Rev W.J. Meers, Langley Fitzurse and Draycot Cerne, 1956)

Listing NGR: ST9241876913

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26572493

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)