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St Peter

St Peter

Thurgarton

Nottinghamshire

Founded c.1119-39 by Ralph de Ayncourt for canons of the order of St. Augustine.

Architectural Features

Dissolved 1534.

Early C13, restored 1852-3 by T. C. Hine when the chancel was added and the north aisle renewed.

C13 west end with moulded plinth and band over.

To the left are fragments of an earlier, probably C13, build.

The embattled C13 tower with remnants of 4 pinnacles is of 6 stages with bands.

The single arcade of the right buttress has a single carved grotesque.

Attached to the north west buttress is a dressed coursed rubble wall with ashlar coping having a pointed arched doorway with hood mould and 2 large grotesque corbels to the west side and a single carved human head to the apex of the east side.

C13 moulded arched entrance with 2 colonnettes either side with worn stiff-leaf capitals.

Inner C13 moulded arched doorway with 2 colonnettes and moulded capitals either side.

Below and adjacent to the wall is a hollow C13 ashlar coffin with remains of lid.

The C13 south arcade of the now demolished aisle has a large octagonal column with 4 octagonal colonnettes.

Over the altar is a fine elaborate and decoratively carved early C14 bracket with canopy.

Restored C13 ashlar altar slab.

Set of 3 C15 choir stalls with misericords with decoratively carved heads, figures and foliage.

Elaborately carved chair.

C19 octagonal font.

Good C19 pulpit.

C17 and C18 floor slabs.

South nave has a C12 ashlar coffin with remains of a lid.

In the north aisle is a monument to Susanna Gilbert Cooper, 1751 and John Gilbert Cooper.

The 2 inscriptions are divided by a single decorative pier decorated with a roundel with carved head.

The pier breaks into the pedimented crown and supports some carved books.