- Church of St Peter, Hornblotton
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Church of St Peter 
Location within SomersetGeneral information Town or city Hornblotton Country England Coordinates 51°06′17″N 2°35′01″W / 51.1046°N 2.5835°W Completed 1874 The Church of St Peter at Hornblotton in the parish of West Bradley, Somerset, England was built in 1872–74 by Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, for the rector, Godfrey Thring replacing a medieval church on the same site. It is a Grade I listed building,[1]
The Victorian building is on the site of an earlier church which had fallen into disrepair, from which a stump of the tower remains in the churchyard.[2]
One of the feature of the church is an early electric clocks and the first in England to have a striking mechanism. It was controlled from a master clock in the nearby house. The clock mechanism was taken to the Science Museum in London for restoration in 1984.[3][4] It was made by Charles Shepherd who also made the Shepherd gate clock mounted on the wall outside the gate of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
The interior walls of the church are decorated with Sgraffito which is produced by applying layers of plaster tinted in contrasting colors to a moistened surface, or in ceramics, by applying to an unfired ceramic body two successive layers of contrasting slip, and then in either case scratching so as to produce an outline drawing. The decoration includes representations of Moses, Isaiah, Jeremiah and the Annunciation.[5] The technique is attributed to the Arts and Crafts Movement and, at Hornblotton, have been created by cutting away the upper coat of white cement and leaving exposed the strawberry coloured undercoat of plaster including terracotta patterns of sunflowers and leaves.[6]
The parish is part of the Six Pilgrims benefice within the deanery of Bruton and Cary.[7]
See also
- List of Grade I listed buildings in Mendip
- List of towers in Somerset
References
- ^ "Church of St Peter". Images of England. English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=267655. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
- ^ "Hornblotton Church". Phil Merryman. http://www.philmerryman.com/hornblotton/Hornblotton3.html. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ "Hornblotton Clock". Phil Merryman. http://www.philmerryman.com/hornblotton/Hornblotton5.html. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ "Electric turret clock by Shepherd, 1883.". Science and Society. http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10284790. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ "Hornblotton Church Interior". Phil Merryman. http://www.philmerryman.com/hornblotton/Hornblotton4.html. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ "Hornblotton Hall and St Peter's Church, Hornblotton, Somerset". Doc Brown. http://www.docbrown.info/docspics/southwest/swspage05.htm. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
- ^ "St Peter, Hornblotton". Church of England. http://www.achurchnearyou.com/hornblotton-st-peter/. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1874
- 19th-century church buildings
- Grade I listed churches
- Grade I listed buildings in Somerset
- Church of England churches in Mendip
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