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St Peter And St Paul

Church Hanborough

Oxfordshire

Early C12 with mid C13 alterations

Architectural Features

roll-moulded string course beneath sills of this east window and 2 early C13 pointed lancets to south

C12 chamfered and round-arched doorway to ancient (probably C15) studded door

North chapel, continued as north aisle, has one-light window and label mould over C14 two-light trefoil-headed window to east, mid C13 pointed lancet, and label mould with head stops over c1400 three-light trefoil-headed window

north aisle to nave has early C13 pointed lancet, mid C13 two-light geometrical window, a small late C12 round-arched lancet and a c1400 two-light window with panel tracery

Early C13 north porch has archway of 3 orders, with hollow-chamfered arch set on triple jamb shafts

C17 studded double doors, with strap hinges

Fine early C12 north doorway with zigzag-carved hood over roll-moulded arch set on jamb shafts with scalloped capitals

very fine tympanum carving of St

C17 studded door with strap hinges and fittings

Norman lancet at west end of aisle

South aisle: Norman lancet at east end, label moulds over two c1400 three-light ogee-headed windows

C17 south porch has timber lintel over plank studded door with label moulds set in ovolo-moulded wood architrave

C12 round-arched doorway. c1400 three-stage west tower: large offset buttresses

moulded string course with corner gargoyles beneath parapet with carved quatrefoils

C15 clerestory with Perpendicular windows

Interior: C15 piscina in vestry, mid C13 string course carried around chancel

C15 trefoiled piscina and segmental arch over C15 studded door to south

C12 round-arched aumbry, square aumbry and pointed chamfered arch over fine C15 studded door with iron hinges and fittings to north

late C17 communion rail with turned balusters

bases of two mid C13 jamb shafts flank east window

C15 three-bay chancel roof

C15 double-chamfered archway to north chapel and mid C13 hollow-chamfered archway to south chapel which has ogee-headed piscina and stone steps with ancient plank door to former rood loft

mid C13 chancel arch set on shafts with moulded capitals

Nave has C15 three-bay arcades with concave-moulded capitals and octagonal piers

3-bay C15 roof with moulded tie beams arch-braced to C15 head corbels

restored C15 polygonal pulpit set on narrow stem and with some C15 panel tracery

Very fine late C15 rood screens, to chancel and aisles, with much late C15 gold, red and black painted decoration

C17 lean-to roofs in aisles

Late C17 decoratively-carved parish chest at west end of nave

Wall painting: 2 trefoil-headed recesses in north aisle have fine C15 paintings of white roses on a red background

Monuments: Arched recess in north wall of chancel has brass to Dr

Chancel also has small floor brasses to Joanna Mericke (d.1617) and Walter Culpepper, (d.1616)

Marble wall monument, surmounted by urn, to Thomas Smith (d.1729) and family

north wall has broken-pedimented wall tablet to Jane Culpepper, (d.1636), and wall monument with Ionic pilasters and heraldic shields erected 1632 to memory of Margaret Clarke, (d.1592). Various late C17 and C18 ledger stones

Late C15 brass to Jane Ford and 2 husbands at east end of nave

Stained glass: 2 late C15 tracery lights with Tudor roses set in foliate background, at in south-east window of south aisle

Subsidiary features: tapered C14 grave slab attached to south side of chancel. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p543-4

National Monuments Record

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