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© Mrs Sue Durant LRPS
IoE Number:
435027
Location:
CHURCH OF SAINT PETER,
SHEPTON MONTAGUE, SOUTH SOMERSET, SOMERSET
Photographer:
Mrs Sue Durant LRPS
Date Photographed:
15 March 2003
Date listed:
24 March 1961
Date of last amendment:
29 August 1984
Grade
II
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SHEPTON MONTAGUE CP
ST63SE
LOWER SHEPTON
24.3.61
5/270 Church of Saint Peter
GV II
Church. C13 origins, mostly C15 work surviving serious fire of 1964. Cary stone cut and squared, Doulting stone
dressings; copper sheet roof between coped gables with finials. Only 3-bay nave survives with tower doubling as porch
on centre South side; extent of C13 chancel denoted by low stone walls. C13 tapered jambs to pointed chancel arch now
blocked in East wall, including 4 stone fragments from former chancel, possibly C12 work. Nave plinthed, no buttresses;
windows pointed arch 3-light C15 traceried, mostly restored 1855 and 1966, all under labels; matching 2-light window in
shallow recess in West wall with carved head stops to arched label over blocked C15 4-centre arched doorway with square
label and foliage in carved spandrils. Tower of 2-stages with angled offset buttresses to South East and South West
corners; plinth, string courses, crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles; 4-centre arch with arched label into porch,
with recessed 2-light window with restored C15 style tracery over; to top of tower on all faces simple windows with
pairs of segmental arched lights filled with pierced stonework baffles, small block sundial at base of stage-2 South
side. Porch has plaster panel and beam ceiling and fine moulded 4-centre arched inner door, with legend Port Esy-ds
Thomas, worked into arch moulding. Inside was gutted by fire and all work renewed in 1966; stained glass to former East
window, dated 1926, incorporated into centre window North wall; above South doorway fine hatchment of Queen Elizabeth
II by Somerset Guild of Craftsmen. (Guide to Church, undated).