St Peter's Church, Everleigh

St Peter's Church
Location Everleigh, Wiltshire, England
Coordinates 51°17′11″N 1°43′02″W / 51.28639°N 1.71722°W / 51.28639; -1.71722Coordinates: 51°17′11″N 1°43′02″W / 51.28639°N 1.71722°W / 51.28639; -1.71722
Listed Building – Grade II*
Designated 27 May 1964[1]
Reference no. 1035994
Location of St Peter's Church in Wiltshire

St Peter's Church, in Everleigh, Wiltshire, England was built in 1813 by John Morlidge for F.D. Astley. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building,[1] and is now a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.[2] It was declared redundant on 18 April 1974, and was vested in the Trust on 22 October 1975.[3]

Everleigh had a parish church by 1228, when it was granted to the Benedictine Wherwell Abbey in Hampshire.[4] However, the mediaeval parish church was demolished in 1814 when the present Church of England parish church of Saint Peter was consecrated on a site about 0.5 miles (800 m) northwest of it.[4] The present church was designed by the architect John Morlidge[4] in a Georgian Gothic Revival style.[5] It includes the original Norman font from the old church.[5]

It has many memorials to the Astley family.[1]

The church is open to visitors every day, the key is held locally.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Historic England, "Church of St Peter, Everleigh (1035994)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 10 April 2015
  2. ↑ St Peter's Church, Everleigh, Wiltshire, Churches Conservation Trust, retrieved 2 April 2011
  3. ↑ Diocese of Salisbury: All Schemes (PDF), Church Commissioners/Statistics, Church of England, 2011, p. 4, retrieved 2 April 2011
  4. 1 2 3 Crowley, D.A. (ed.); Baggs, A.P.; Crittall, Elizabeth; Freeman, Jane; Stevenson, Janet H. (1980). Victoria County History: A History of the County of Wiltshire: Volume 10: Downton hundred; Elstub and Everleigh Hundred. pp. 135–142.
  5. 1 2 Pevsner, Nikolaus; Cherry, Bridget (revision) (1975). The Buildings of England: Wiltshire. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 242. ISBN 0 14 071026 4.


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