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St Peter

Codford

Wiltshire

C13, C15, 1863 restoration by T.H. Wyatt

Architectural Features

C15 gabled south porch with C19 pointed archway with original hoodmould with shield-carved terminals

string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

Nave to left has 2-light square-headed C19 window, 3-light and single-light C19 windows to right, all with cusped lights and hoodmoulds, battlemented parapet with string course and gargoyles

Chancel has chamfered pointed, south door, 2-light C19 plate tracery window either side, diagonal buttresses to east end, original C13 pilaster buttress to centre of east end below C19 three-light pointed lancet

Lean-to north aisle with 3-light and two 2-light C19 square-headed windows with cusped lights and hoodmoulds, some original stonework retained and some reset fragments of C13 carved stone, west end of aisle has 2-light square-headed window with original hoodmould

Three-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses and string course to bellstage only, 3-light restored Perpendicular window to west, middle stage has arrowloops and octagonal clockface to south side, bellstage has 2- light Perpendicular louvres to all sides but north which has one cusped lancet, string course with gargoyles to battlemented parapet

C15 moulded tower arch

C19 moulded pointed chancel arch on marble shafts, carved wooden screen by F.C. Eden c1910

1891 brass candelabra

C13 trefoil-headed sedilia on south wall with triangular hoodmould over each arch

Other fittings: square C12 font with carved stars and crosses in discs on single column with scalloped base

C17 font cover with strapwork carving

Eight-point star-shaped Hatchment of Prince Leopold in chancel

Early C20 polygonal wooden pulpit

Painted Royal Arms dated 1716 on south wall of nave

High quality stained glass in north aisle

stained glass in south west nave window to Brind family and signed Gibbs and Howard 1881

C18 and C19 monuments include good slate and marble tablet in tower to Thomas Polden died 1753, classical C15 marbles to Crouch family, marble by Wood of Bristol to Rev John Dampier died 1839

Very well preserved C9 Saxon cross shaft with fine carving of man with alder branch, against north wall of chancel.

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