St Peter's Church, Evercreech

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Church of St Peter
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Location within Somerset
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Town or city Evercreech
Country England
Coordinates 51°08′46″N2°30′10″W / 51.1462°N 2.5027°W / 51.1462; -2.5027
Completed14th century
Height94 feet (29 metres)
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evercreech church

The Church of St Peter in Evercreech, Somerset, England, dates from the 14th century and is a Grade I listed building. [1]

The three-stage tower has set-back buttresses ascending to pinnacles, with a very tall transomed two-light bell-chamber with windows on each face The embattled parapet has quatrefoil piercing, with big corner pinnacles and smaller intermediate pinnacles. The four-light west window has extensively restored tracery. This tower is of the East Mendip type, [1] and was completed around 1462. [2] It is 94 feet (29 metres) high to the top of the pinnacles. [3]

On the north wall of the tower is a roll of honour to victims of World War I. It is within a rectangular wooden case with a glazed door crowned by a triangular pediment and plaque below. [4]

The clock face features an unusual mistake as it is missing the X (10) replaced by an X1 and two XII (12). [5] [6]

The vicar in 1843 was Charles Napier. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Church of St Peter". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 25 November 2006.
  2. ↑ Poyntz Wright, Peter (1981). The Parish Church Towers of Somerset, Their construction, craftsmanship and chronology 1350 - 1550. Avebury Publishing Company. ISBN   0-86127-502-0.
  3. ↑ Flannery, Julian (2016). Fifty English Steeples: The Finest Medieval Parish Church Towers and Spires in England. New York City, New York, United States: Thames and Hudson. pp. 370–377. ISBN 978-0500343142.
  4. ↑ "Church of St Peter and churchyard, Evercreech". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Retrieved 5 March 2008.
  5. ↑ "Saint Peter's Church Evercreech" (PDF). Saint Peter's Church Evercreech. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  6. ↑ "Chiefs call time on pub's clock signs". Express & Echo. 24 September 2009. Retrieved 31 October 2014.
  7. ↑ Foster, Joseph (1888–1892). "Napier, Charles Walter Albyn"  . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886 . Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
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