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St. Peter

St. Peter

Clyffe Pypard

Wiltshire

Peter 17.1.55 II Parish church: tall C15 nave of five bays, narrow aisles and chancel of 1860 by Butterfield

Architectural Features

Interior: nave roof C15 with knee braced collars moulded tie beams and brattished cornice plate

The roof with its fine carved collar purlin replaced an earlier steeper pitched roof, evidenced by tower creasing

Aisle roofs also C15, moulded principal rafters and purlins forming plastered panels

East bay of nave aisles enclosed with parclose screens, probably part C15 but restored and painted as is chancel screen

Wall paintings

fragmentary painting over chancel arch, but whole of nave has been painted in later C19 now undergoing removal (July 1984). Pulpit: hexagonal and highly carved dated 1629, gift of John Kniston with original wrought iron book stand

Font: 1860

by Rev F Goddard copying font from Over

Monuments: north aisle: Wall tomb, a much damaged recumbent knight c1380 under cinquefoiled crocketed canopy and ogee panelling below

Painted wood aedicule panel to Elizabeth Goddard, died c1585, dated 1605, kneeling life size figures of knight and wife displaced now in apertures of rood loft

C13 incised cross tomb slab mounted over north door

Excellent monument to Thomas Spackman, local carpenter, by John Devall (Deval) Jnr, Royal master mason, of London c1786, Deval's best monumental work

Romantic standing figure of Spackman flanked by recording children, bag of carpenter's tools cast down before him

C17 Parish Chest

Glass: Much fragmentary yellow stained medieval glass, head of queen, crowns, suns etc in heads of nave windows

Baroque carved Goddard arms panel over north door

He also donated churchyard gates. c1380 brass of Quintin family or Cobham family.