Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST PETER. RAILINGS ON EAST AND SOUTH SIDES OF CHURCHYARD (104390)

738/7/1 HIGH WEST STREET 08-MAY-50 (North side) CHURCH OF ST PETER RAILINGS ON EAST AN D SOUTH SIDES OF CHURCHYARD GV I Revision Number: 2 HIGH WEST {STREET} {1 .} {5191} (North Side) {)} Church of St Peter. Railings on east and {south} sides of {churchyard} {sy} {+ 9 90} 7/1 8.5.50. {GV} 2. {Building} {In} {1420/1.} North and south chapels slightly {later} Vestry and chancel added in {1856++7} by John Hicks and {mamas} {Hnrdy.} C12 south doorway reset in C15 church. {Hammer-dressed} limestone with Ham {stone_ashlar} dressings. Pitched stone slate roof to nave, tiles to chancel, {lean-to} over aisles. Moulded plinth and eaves cornices. Parapet to aisle roofs, crenellated along south side and around {vestry.} {Buttress,} {with} set-backs, very fine grotesques on the eaves cornice, {and} crocketed pinnacles placed diagonally above {each} {buttress,} Perpendicular tracery in all windows, Tower with moulded {plinth,} 2 strings, eaves {cornice} {and} {crenell;+ted} parapet. Polygonal stair tower at {ncrtkeaat} {corner.} Angle buttresses with set {backs,} gargoyles at the eaves cornice and crocketed pinnacles {placed} diagonally above each. Upper stage has tall bell openings with transoms {and} Perpendicular {tracery.} {Pitch-roofed} porch to south doorway, which is a re-set {pointed} arch with 2 orders of zig-zag and 1 order of foliage. {- Many} monuments of which the following are outstanding. 2 C14 effigies of recumbent knights {(presumably} reset) in window {embrasures} of south {chapel,} {1} C14 tomb chest {(presumably} reset) in chancel north {wall;} quartrefoil-panelled {front,} cusped ogee arched recess with {flanking} crocketed {pinnacles.} {Sarcophagus} of Sir John and Lady Williams of {Herringstone} {(]-fil7)} {in} north {chapel:} canopy taken on Corinthian {columns} with {mound} arched centre. {Semi-reclining} effigy of {Denzil,} {Lord} {Iiolles,} in north aisle: gadrooned {sarcophagus} in curtained, aedicule flanked by weeping putti (similarities between this and the Strode monument {of 1698} at {Beaminster,} and the Digby monument {of 3-698} at Sherborne suggest Nost {as} a {possible} {sculptor)..} Jacobean wooden {plilpit,} Reredos {(18911-7)} by C E Ponting of {MRrlbo+ough.} Royal Arms with "CR" monogram {iinde1*} tower, victorian benches and tiles in {chancel.} Iron railings and gates with spear finials and elaborate open-work iron piers. [{S<JB- hQ_t-o 65A,(_c_ the Shire fig mjnfl +t}] {++J+e-tt+'+'+ ++++++W+n++++t} {Barmcs Zn.chur_ch +arci immediate2v} {sn+h} {nCJ%+wLmqW++ forfll a g+q++p,} Listing NGR: SY6925090750

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