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St Peter

Great Haseley

Oxfordshire

Church. c.1200, c.1300, early C14 and C15

Architectural Features

plain-tile and copper roofs

The C15 square-headed clerestorey windows each have two cinquefoiled lights

3-stage C15 tower with large diagonal buttresses has a crenellated parapet, 2-light traceried belfry openings and a deeply recessed 3-light west window

The elaborate re-set early C13 doorway has an arch of 3 richly-moulded orders and dogtooth ornament on shafts with stiff-leaf capitals

Interior: Chancel is complete and very fine, with a carved stone vine cornice and moulded rere arches and hoods to the windows

C15 oak roof of 7 bays with curved bracing to the tie beams

A sizeable collection of C14 floor tiles of many patterns is set into the walls at the west end

The south porch protects the fine C13 doorway with 2 orders of roll moulding and dogtooth ornament, and an ancient plank door with simple early C13 crescent hinges

Stained glass of the C19 and early C20 in the south aisle and chancel

Fittings include a Jacobean octagonal pulpit with baluster legs, 2 late-medieval chests and a plain stone tub font

Monuments include brasses dated 1444, 1495 and 158i plus various fragments, 2 medieval stone coffins, C13 tomb slab with a foliated cross, two C13 effigies of knights, one mutilated the other well preserved with sword and crossed legs, and a large early C16 table tomb in the north-east chantry (but formerly in the chancel) with panelled sides, heraldry and a black marble top, said to be of Sir William Barrendyne

Wall monuments include an elaborate Baroque cartouche to Revd

John Whistler (died 1720) and various plainer C18 tablets, The north chapel, visible through a former chancel window contains a large white marble Baroque monument to George Blackall (died 1709) who is commemorated with a bewigged bust under gilt-edged draperies framed by Ionic columns supporting an open and broken segmental pediment containing an heraldic cartouche flanked by trumpeting cherubs

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