Church of St.Peter, Evenjob

Heritage listing

Reason for designation: Included for its prominence in landscape to N of Evenjobb. History: 1866-70 by T H Wyatt. Early Decorated style. Snecked sandstone facings, ashlar dressings and steep tiled roofs. Exterior: Squat proportions to church comprising nave, chancel with lean-to N vestry and angled doorway, S organ-chamber linked to S aisle with porch-tower and broach spire. Coped gables with stone finials, stepped buttresses to angles, polygonal stair turret to SW corner of tower. 3-light traceried E window with Geometric head, similar 2-light windows to W end and N side of nave. Impaled trefoils to traceried lancets, paired cusped lights to S aisle. Paired early C13-style bell-openings with foliage capitals and oculi grouped under superarches. Outer and inner S doorways with nook shafts, hoodmoulds and double boarded inner doors with strapwork hinges. Interior: Straightforward colourwashed interior with Bath stone (?) dressings. Boarded tunnel roof to chancel with single pointed opening to S organ chamber matched by recess on N wall. E window glass by Clayton and Bell, 1896. Moulded chancel arch with dwarf granite surface on tripartite corbels; fine wrought-iron chancel-screen with crucifix over central "gable", foliage crestings etc. Open nave roof with scissor-arched braces; 2-bay S aisle with dying-back corbels and round pier. Circular stone font with spire cover. Location: Occupying an elevated position about 300m N of Evenjobb village; above the road leading to Whitton.

From Cadw under OGL v3.