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St Peter

Marsh Baldon

Oxfordshire

C14 and C15, north aisle late C18 rebuilt 1890 by Micklethwaite and Somers Clarke who restored the church

Architectural Features

plain-tile roof

Chancel has a Tudor-arched 3-light east window with ogee tracery, and to south 2 more C15 windows of different design, one 4 centred, the other pointed segmental

The nave has a square-headed C14 window and a single-light ogee-headed window

The timber-framed south porch may be C14 but was repaired in 1589

The C14 tower has a 2-light west window with reticulated tracery, ogee-headed belfry openings, and becomes octagonal near the top with large corbels

Interior: chancel has an elaborate cusped C15 piscina and sedilia formed from extensions of the window recesses

To north a C15 window opens into the north aisle

Plastered tympanum above chancel step has a hatchment on its east face

Fittings include a fine Jacobean oak pulpit with double-arched carved panels and a canopy with pendants

East and south-east windows of chancel contain much C14 and C15 stained glassy 2-light window in nave of 1902 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne

Monuments include a brass inscription and shield to John Danvers (died 1616), and a large white marble Baroque wall monument to Anna Pollard (died 1701) with barley-twist columns, Corinthian capitals, and a swan-neck pediment supporting cherubs and a cartouche of arms

The sanctuary floor contains various C17 and C18 ledgers. (V.C.H,1 Oxfordshire, Vol.V, p.45. Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: pp,698-9).

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