Church of St Peter, Stourton

Heritage listing

Details STOURTON WITH GASPER HIGH STREET ST 73 SE (south side) 6/135 Church of St Peter 6.1.66 GV I Anglican parish church. Early C14, C15, 1720s, early Cl9 and 1877 restoration, 1848 south aisle. Dressed limestone, tiled chancel roof, lead nave roof. West tower, nave with aisles, chancel with south organ chamber, north chapel and porch. Square flat-roofed north porch with Tudor-arched doorway and C20 double doors, plain parapet, aisle has 4-light Perpendicular window to right and three 4-light to left of porch, parapet with pierced triangles, clerestory has four late C14 three-light windows, parapet with cusped lozenges. East end of aisle has 4-light Perpendicular window. Chancel east window blocked 1937, south window late C14, coped verge with cross finial. 1877 vestry/organ chamber has polygonal east end, C19 door and cusped lancets, early c19 family pew has 4-light window and coped verge with missing finial. 1848 south aisle has 4-light window, parapet as north aisle, clerestory with four 3-light Perpendicular windows, parapet. West window of south aisle is reset C15, north aisle has 4-light Perpendicular window. Three-stage tower with diagonal buttresses carried up to clasping buttresses, moulded plinth, blocked west doorway, C19 square-headed window over, pointed south doorway, middle stage has 1848 gilded clockface, bellstage has 2-light Perpendicular windows with pierced wooden louvres, battlemented parapet with gargoyles. Interior: Porch has C19 double chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with double doors, fragments of reset C15 mouldings in side walls. Nave has C19 four-bay ribbed ceiling on gilded angel corbels. Early C14 north arcade of 3 1/2 bays; cylindrical columns with double chamfered pointed arches, second from east is triple chamfered. C19 south arcade in

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.