St Peter

MATERIALS: Local rubble siltstone with freestone dressings, under graded stone-tile roofs PLAN: Nave and chancel under a single roof, west belfry, south porch and north vestry.

EXTERIOR: The church has a mixture of Gothic and domestic Tudor windows.

Only the C16 three-light square-headed west window survived the fire.

In the porch are reclaimed encaustic tiles.

On the south wall, next to the pulpit, is a rare wrought-iron hour-glass stand, dated 1662 and with the initials SS (Samuel Steadman, the incumbent).

The central bay has projecting pinnacles, surmounted by angels, and an ogee arch surmounted by a cross.

The octagonal font is on a broad pedestal and base.

The freestone polygonal pulpit has open Gothic panelling and marble shafts, very dated by the 1920s.

There is a metal memorial plaque to Col George Benson, killed in 1900 in the Boer War.

Two stained-glass windows are by Kempe & Tower.

The earliest datable features were the C14 chancel windows, but the church suffered a serious fire in 1928 and was subsequently substantially rebuilt by Nicholson & Clarke of Hereford.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Peter, Easthope, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It has special interest as a medieval church of C12 origin but rebuilt after a fire in 1928, in a conservative, rather Arts

Crafts manner. * Furnishings include a rare C17 hour glass holder.