Description

ST24SE OTTERHAMPTON CP CHURCH HILL (East side)
COMBWICH

4/78 Church of St Peter

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- II

Church. 1870 by J Knowles for Susanna Lewes Jeffery. Coursed and squared blue lias rubble, red sandstone banding,
prominent buttresses, tile roofs with fish-tail banding, coped verges with finials. Free Decorated style with Early
English featuresi nave with a spired south belfry porch, north and south transepts, apsidal chancel. Three bay nave,
single bay transepts and chancel; 2 and 3-light windows, west window with intersecting tracery; lancets to chancel.
Elaborate porch with octagonal upper stage, each face with a gabled lantern at its base, ribbed stone spire, clock,
stair turret to west side; broad pointed-arch door opening with 2 pairs of detached shafts, foliate caps; paired
wrought-iron gates. Lofty plastered interior on tile floors dominated by arch-braced roofs springing from foliated
corbels; reredos with 7 foiled gables, a detached shaft with foliate caps between each, pierced by a lancet to centre
and each side; plain chancel arch. Virtually complete C19 fittings including pews, choir stalls, altar rails, tub font
and oil lamps on brackets; elaborate semi-circular stone pulpit with detached Purbeck shafts. Stained glass to West
window and chancel. Brass plaque commemorating the dedication of the church to the West end. (Pevsner N, Buildings of
England South and West Somerset, l958).

Listing NGR: ST2586442271

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St Peter at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26530568

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Recommended Books

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)