Church of St Peter and St Paul, Eye

Heritage listing

Details SO 46 SE; 6/1 EYE, MORETON & ASHTON CP Church of St Peter and St Paul 11.06.59 GV I Parish church. Late C12 and early C13, early C14 alterations to north chapel and to chancel, late C14 north porch. Restoration of 1874 by Chick when west tower added or rebuilt and south vestry added. Sandstone rubble with dressings of the same material, tiled roofs. West tower, nave with north and south aisles and north porch, chancel; north chapel and south vestry. West tower: four stages with two string courses and embattled parapet with gargoyles at corners, pair of lancets to north and south, pairs of two-centred arched headed openings with two trefoil-headed lights and lozenge pattern infill tracery to each side of bell stage, clock face to north side. Nave: three clerestory windows with quatrefoils in rectangular surrounds, south aisle; Y-tracery window inserted in semicircular headed former doorway to left of two square-headed windows with two trefoil headed lights. North aisle; square-headed window with two trefoil headed lights to left and similar window to right of largely restored partly timber-framed north porch; outer entrance has moulded posts and curved braces forming a two-centred arch below the tie-beam, decorative bargeboard, north doorway has semi-circular headed arch of two moulded orders, the inner continuous and the outer springing from attached shafts with foliated capitals. North chapel; lancet to north side to left of blocked semicircular headed doorway, early C14 east window of three pointed lights. C19 south vestry with two- centred arched head to window with two trefoil-headed lights and quatrefoil in roundel. Chancel: late C13 window of one trefoil-headed light to south, the early C14 east window has a two-centred arched head with three trefoil- head

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.