Church of St Peter and Paul

Heritage listing

Details GREAT SOMERFORD TOP STREET ST 98 SE 3/212 Church of St Peter and Paul 28.10.59 GV I Anglican parish church. C14, C15, restored 1865 by J.H. Hakewill. Rubble stone with stone slate roofs and coped gables. West tower, nave, south porch, north aisle and chancel with north side organ chamber. Late C14 or early C15 west tower, formerly roughcast, with diagonal buttresses, plinth, dripcourses, embattled parapet and angle pinnacles. Small 2-light Perpendicular style bell- openings, three-sided stair turret up to second stage of south side and west front narrow Tudor-arched door under 3-light west window and hoodmould. South wall has late C15 long flat-headed 4- light window with hoodmould each side of ashlar-fronted porch, rebuilt 1905 reusing old materials. Tudor-arched doorway and C19 door within. At south east angle, three-sided rood-stair tower with small rood-light above. On north side, nave roof is carried down over aisle with blocked Tudor-arched door and flat headed 2- light Perpendicular window each side. Coped east gable. Ashlar chancel has two 3-light four-centred windows to south, with small door between and one to north with 1880 organ chamber to right. Four-light Perpendicular east window. Interior: nave has collar-rafter roof and one tie-beam, heavily moulded late C14 or early C15 tower arch with 1903 timber screen and fine C14 four bay arcade, the piers with four shafts and four hollows, the capitals with large crude leaf mouldings. Hollow-and- wave moulded pointed arches. Similar mouldings to chancel arch. North aisle has lean-to roof. Chancel has delicately painted wagon roof, 1901 by F.C. Eden, south side windows are continued down with blank panelling as sedilia, piscina to left. Fittings and monuments: chancel east window by Lavers and Barraud, 186

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.