Listed Building record MDO1020 - St Peter's Church, High West Street, Dorchester

Church was built in 1420/1 with a vestry and chancel added 1856-7; it is built of limestone with ashlar dressings. There are very fine grotesques on the eaves cornice, and inside are some outstanding monuments consisting of two fourteenth century effigies of recumbent knights, a fourteenth century tomb chest and an early seventeenth century sarcophagus of Sir John and Lady Williams of Winterborne Herringston.

Parish Church of St. Peter has a reset south doorway which indicates the former existence of a late 12th century church on the site. The present building is essentially of the 15th century with restorations in 1856-7 and the 20th century. <1>

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 1, 107-10 (Monograph). SDO148.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 1 to 25 inch scale map, 1971 (Map). SDO18020.

(SY 69259075) St Peter's Church (CofE) (NAT)

<3> Dicker, V and Ashford, D, 1991, St Peter's Church, High West Street, Dorchester (Unpublished document). SDO9940.

<4> A short guide to St Peter's, Dorchester (Monograph). SDO18267.

<5> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OP10422 (Index). SDO14738.

St. Peter's Church was built c.1420. To its left, Dorset County Museum. Mounted on reverse of OP10423

<6> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OP24567 (Index). SDO14738.

A view of St Peter's Church, Dorchester, from the south. This postcard was received by the National Buildings Record on 1st August 1962.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453520 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 22 2024 7:25PM