Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
9172
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/02/1993
Date of Amendment
15/02/1993
Name of Property
Church of St. Peter
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Powys
Community
Old Radnor
Town
Locality
Evenjob
Easting
326268
Northing
262694
Street Side
Location
Occupying an elevated position about 300m N of Evenjobb village; above the road leading to Whitton.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1866-70 by T H Wyatt. Early Decorated style. Snecked sandstone facings, ashlar dressings and steep tiled roofs.
Exterior
Squat proportions to church comprising nave, chancel with lean-to N vestry and angled doorway, S organ-chamber linked to S aisle with porch-tower and broach spire. Coped gables with stone finials, stepped buttresses to angles, polygonal stair turret to SW corner of tower. 3-light traceried E window with Geometric head, similar 2-light windows to W end and N side of nave. Impaled trefoils to traceried lancets, paired cusped lights to S aisle. Paired early C13-style bell-openings with foliage capitals and oculi grouped under superarches. Outer and inner S doorways with nook shafts, hoodmoulds and double boarded inner doors with strapwork hinges.
Interior
Straightforward colourwashed interior with Bath stone (?) dressings. Boarded tunnel roof to chancel with single pointed opening to S organ chamber matched by recess on N wall. E window glass by Clayton and Bell, 1896. Moulded chancel arch with dwarf granite surface on tripartite corbels; fine wrought-iron chancel-screen with crucifix over central "gable", foliage crestings etc. Open nave roof with scissor-arched braces; 2-bay S aisle with dying-back corbels and round pier. Circular stone font with spire cover.
Reason for designation
Included for its prominence in landscape to N of Evenjobb.
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