St Peter

MATERIALS: Grey and red sandstone in squared blocks and laid in regular courses, tile roof.

The porch is timber-framed on a dwarf wall, incorporating a trefoil arcading on turned posts, and entrance arch with carved spandrels and pierced-quatrefoil barge boards.

Beneath the tower are late-medieval floor tiles.

Other tiles are C19.

The nave has a floor of red and black tiles, with raised wood floors below the pews.

In the chancel are decorative tiles.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The octagonal font is C15 and has roses and fleurs-de-lis on the hollow-chamfered underside, but the stem and base are modern.

The polygonal wooden pulpit has blind Gothic panels incorporating some C16 tracery, and foliage trail cornice of similar date.

A chancel screen also incorporates older wood, probably from a C16 rood screen.

It has 3 bays either side of the entrance, with delicate tracery to main lights, and C16 foliage trail and brattishing.

There are fragments of medieval glass in one south window.

HISTORY: The C15 tower of the medieval church has survived, but the remainder of the present building is mainly a rebuilding in 1883 by W.J. Hopkins , architect of Worcester, for William Laslett of Abberton Hall.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Peter, Flyford Flavell, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * For its C15 west tower. * The remainder of the building is a Gothic-revival church retaining C19 character and detail. * It has early fixtures of interest, including late-medieval floor tiles, C15 font bowl,

a pulpit and screen incorporating C16 woodwork.