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St Peter

St Peter

Weston

Suffolk

C15 square 3-stage tower with diagonal buttresses to the west face: in the lowest stage each buttress has a blocked trefoil-headed statue niche and in the plinth 2 stone shields.

Architectural Features

The nave probably has a C12 core: there is one blocked C12 window in the north wall and the inner arch of the south doorway is semi-circular.

Early C16 south doorway of red brick.

C15 porch, considerably restored but with its original roof.

The nave doorway, said to be C13, has a good early plank door.

C13 chancel with various Perpendicular-style windows

Good C15 arched-braced nave roof in 8 bays, with a crenellated wallplate.

There are only about 40-odd fonts of this type. For an exterior view see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2854535 and for  information about this church go to: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2128044.

Good C15 font, the panels of the bowl with mutilated carvings of the Seven Sacraments and the Baptism of Christ

There are only about 40-odd fonts of this type. For an exterior view see > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2854535 and for information about this church go to: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2128044.

© Evelyn Simak

angels to the underside of the bowl and a buttressed stem with cusped panels between.

The font stands on a 2-stepped octagonal plinth, with a raised upper step in the form of a Maltese Cross and with panelled risers.

Good set of 20 C15 poppyhead bench-ends in nave, 4 with carved arm-rests

2 other detached benches have carved backs.

The chancel stalls have further C15 poppyhead ends.

On the nave walls are 3 C16 painted biblical texts with ornamental borders, one being painted over an earlier scene said to show the Entry into Jerusalem.

In the chancel floor there are several C17 and C18 ledger slabs, mainly to the Rede family of Weston Hall.