Description

NY 03 SE CAMERTON CAMERTON

3/7 Church of St Peter

II

Parish Church. 1694 and 1796 with 1855 tower, on medieval site. Roughcast
walls with tower of calciferous sandstone rubble with angle buttresses.
Graduated greenslate roof. 3-bay nave with square west tower/porch and south
chapel; single-bay chancel. Tower has West door in chamfered pointed arch under
lancet windows and quatrefoil bell openings; short octagonal spire. Nave has
2-light plate-tracery windows. Chancel has 2 small trefoil-headed windows, one
in east wall, and 3-light east window. Interior has plain plaster walls and
ceiling with numerous C19 wall plaques. 1510 effigy of Knight Thomas Curwen
(Black Tom). Wooden panel removed from Camerton Hall is dated 1625 and
inscribed B.C. H.C. (Henry & Bridget Curwen), otherwise all late C19 woodwork.

Listing NGR: NY0355130058

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Peter's Church, Camerton at Wikipedia
• St Peter's Church, Camerton official website
• Wikidata Q18392731

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Recommended Books

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)