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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Wantage

Oxfordshire

Late C13 cruciform plan with tower

Architectural Features

chancel extended in C15

C15 chapels and aisles

limestone ashlar to C15 north and south chapels

south wall of chancel has C15 four-centred moulded blocked doorway, offset buttress and C15 three-light window, also to north wall

G.E Street heightened chancel and inserted late C13 style clerestory windows

North chapel of chancel has C15 offset buttresses, one C15 two-light and two C15 three-light square-headed windows and mid C19 inserted pointed roll-moulded doorway

Similar windows without label moulds and with gargoyles to parapet of south chapel

C13 lancet in west wall, four-light late C13 style south window of c.1857

chapel to east has one C15 two-light and one C15 three-light window, parapet continued through to south chapel

North transept has offset corner buttresses, hood moulds over C15 three-light north window and two-light east window

North wall of nave has pointed arches over two C15 four-light windows

C15 sacristy has quatrefoil window and chamfered four-centred window to east, label mould over mid C19 three-light north window in C15 style, and, one-light window adjoining C15 chamfered square-headed west doorway

C15 porch removed from original central position to west end by Butterfield, 1877

reset C15 south doorway with carved leaf spandrels and C15 ribbed door

West wall of nave rebuilt in 1877 by Butterfield, has C15 style four-light windows to aisles, offset buttresses and two reset late C13 two-light transomed windows

Tower over crossing has late C13 two-light windows, polygonal stair-turret to south west and corbel table to crenellated parapet

Interior: chancel has fine reredos, Minton tile floor, altar rail and benches of c.1857

Late C14 stalls with bench-end and misericord carvings

C13 piscina, wall monument to William Wilmot, d.1684, and signed by William Bird of Oxford

North wall has four-centred moulded doorway with C15 ribbed door, and aedicule with scrolled pediment framing wall tablet with date 1621 above

C15 two bay arcade and C15 screen and door with one-light cinquefoil-headed divisions to south chapel, which has two C15 piscinas, early C19 and C18 wall tablets

Late C13 two-bay arcade and screen of c.1857 to south transept, which has mid C19 pews and late C14 four-bay arch-braced collar-truss roof with carved bosses, collar purl in and cornices

North wall of chancel has C15 two bay arcade and C15 screen and door, with one-light cinquefoil-headed division to north chapel which has wall brasses to William Willmott, d.1621 and to a priest c.1330

C15 lean-to roof

C13 south respond with stiff-leaf capitals and C15 two-bay arcade to north transept

North transept wall brasses to Sir Ives Fitzwarin, 1414, and of C15 priest, and wall tablets to John Stevens, d.1750 and Edward Moulden, d.1744

Crossing has late C13 triple-chamfered arches on clustered columns

Pulpit of 1857, possibly by G.E Street, mid C19 pews and 'splendid'