Site Event/Activity record ECC2240 - Pevsner survey of St Peter's Church, Colchester, 1954
Location
Location | St Peter's Church, Colchester |
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Grid reference | TL 9942 2523 (point) |
Map sheet | TL92NE |
County | ESSEX |
Non Parish Area | COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX |
Technique(s)
Organisation
Pevsner, Nikolaus (Mr)
Date
1954
Description
Survey of St Peter's Church by Pevsner 'Essentially C18. Square red brick W tower of 1758. The upper part has white brick quoins and white brick battlements. To the street on a coarse bracket a clock, put up in 1866. The aisle windows all arched, of c1700. White brick battlements. Inside, a few reminders of the medieval church; the arcades with piers with demi-columns to the aisle arches but a slim demi-polygonal shaft to the nave: C15 (In the C18 the nave arcades were extended to the East in pseudo-C15 style) N and S galleries on Tuscan columns behind the arcades. Below the N vestry a BONE-HOLE of c1520 with a brick vault with single-chamfered arches and ribs. The clerestory is of 1895.-PULPIT. Fine piece of c1700 with richly moulded frames of the panels and garlands of fruit down the angles; cherubs' heads at the top of these.- Heavy Neo-Gothic FONT, 1859 by C.F.Hayward. -COMMUNION RAIL with twisted balusters, used for the tower staircase.-DOOR in S doorway with large iron scrolls, late C13. -PLATE. Paten on foot of 1698. -MONUMENTS. A number of rectangular plates with kneeling figures and inscriptions, ranging from 1509 to 1610.- Martin Basill 1623 and wife, with the usual kneeling figures, quite large; the figures set against a blank arch; columns 1 and r.- George Sayer 1577 and wives, smaller and broader, also with kneeling figures, but with three columns and a straight entablature.' <1>
Sources/Archives (1)
- <1> SCC547 Serial: Pevsner, Nikolaus. The Buildings of England: Essex. p135-6.
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
- MCC408 St Peter's Church, North Hill, Colchester (Monument)
Record last edited
Mar 17 2016 8:55AM