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St Peter's Mission Church, Deri

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NPRN13288
Map ReferenceSO10SW
Grid ReferenceSO1281801593
Unitary (Local) AuthorityCaerphilly
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityDarran Valley
Type Of SiteCHURCH
Period19th Century
Description
St Peter's church, in the lower Darran Valley, is located in a small, walled sub-rectangular churchyard at the south end of School Street on the southern margins of the village. The building was constructed before 1873 when it appears on the first-edition Ordnance Survey map as a National School. By 1900 the same building had become a Mission Church.
The church is built in Early English style on two levels on a north-east facing slope and is constructed of roughly-coursed sandstone rubble with Bath stone dressings, stepped buttresses and slate roofs with toothed terracotta ridge tiles. It consists of nave with west gablet bellcote and north-west gabled porch, and narrower chancel above a basement on the lower terrace entered through a simple doorway on the north. On the south-east side of the basement is a single storey extension, rendered and with a slate roof, and lit through narrow linear windows (with plastic frames) in the south long wall.
Sources:
Google Street View, April 2011.
http://www.fochriwhistory.co.uk/page179.htm
OS County Series 25-inch maps: Glamorgan XII.16, editions of 1873 & 1900.

David Leighton, RCAHMW, 1 July 2016