Church of Saint Peter, Great Limber

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 3 June 2024 to amend details in the description and to reformat the text to current standards TA 10 NW 5/108 GREAT LIMBER CHURCH LANE Church of St.Peter 1-11-66 G.V. I Parish Church, C12, C13, C14, C16 and various C19 alterations and additions, including a restoration of 1875. Coursed ironstone and limestone rubble, limestone ashlar dressings, some yellow brick repair and patching, slate roofs. Western tower, nave, chancel, south and north aisles, south porch, vestry. Plain tower with C14 plinth and battlemented parapet. Stepped corner buttresses. All faces have early C15 two light belfry openings in ashlar with ogee tracery. West face has a C14 door with a triple chamfered arch and hood mould. Over the door is a C14 niche with an ogee head and hood mould. Beneath the belfry light is a narrow triangular opening. On the north side is a clock with an open face. In the east side of the tower an earlier nave pitch in white limestone rubble can be seen. The north aisle is of square ironstone with a triple moulded plinth, the top moulding being at window sill level, slightly splayed cornice, stone coped gables. West window is a C15 three light with cusped heads and panel tracery under a semi circular head and hood mould. The C14 north door, blocked in brick, is a small pointed opening with a hood mould, flanked by to the west a three light C16 window with panel decoration and hood mould and to the east three similar windows, with some C19 mullion replacement. The C16 east aisle window has three lights with a pointed head. The north nave wall is in yellow brick and blank, with stone coped gables and a cross fleury at the ridge. The chancel has been partly rebuilt in the C19 and has a plinth and a deep roll moulding at

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.