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St Peter

Great Cheverell

Wiltshire

Cll, C13, C14-C15, and restored 1868 by W.H. Woodman of Reading

Architectural Features

with inserted C13 lancets

low side C14 window and C19 three-light east window

Nave late C14-early C15 square headed windows of 3 lights

South porch added, probably early C15, has angle buttresses and 4-centred outer doorway

C14 west tower

tall lower stage and raised in C15 with bell stage with 2-light openings and octagonal stair tower rising above crenellated parapet

Interior: C15 porch has high side sills and late C14 inner door with pointed arch

Door also probably C15, cross boarded with clenched studs

C15-C16 barrel vault with moulded wall plates and ribs and stretchers dividing plaster panels

Carved bosses at intersections

C14 two-bay arcade to south chapel, with wave moulded pier with pig-nosed inner moulding on attached shafts and caps

North chapel has excellent low pitched roof divided into square panels with moulded timbers having leaf carvings at intersections, those to west end altered in restoration of 1699

Moulded string course across east end, and C14 trefoiled piscina with asymmetrical lobed sink

Ceiling painted at west end C17

Fittings: Font

C13 octagonal with simple trefoiled arches

Pulpit, C20 with linenfold panels

Altar, a C17 table with 2 x 1 arches with pendants, on triple columns

Furniture: C17 parish chest in chapel with linenfold panels, and a smaller C18 chest

Monuments: In nave, south wall, 3 wall tablets

In north chapel, a fine wall monument in limestone and veined marble

On external walls of church, 2 wall monuments

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