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St Andrew

St Andrew

Peatling Parva

Leicestershire

Features largely Perpendicular (C15) though internal C14 arcade is ample evidence that the fabric incorporates earlier elements.

Architectural Features

C15 west tower of 3 stages with angle buttresses, paired foiled lights to bell chamber, quatrefoil frieze, and gargoyles to embattled parapet.

Chancel is also of small rubble or cobble construction, medieval though extensively modified.

Fabric of buttressed north aisle of coursed and squared rubble is medieval, but windows are inserts in a deeply cut Early French style

South arcade is mid-C14: low octagonal shafts with wide double chamfered arches with moulded stops to outer chamfer.

Nave roof is C15: low pitched, moulded tie, ridge piece and purlings with foliate boss in centre of each tie-beam.

Handsome open work wood pulpit with reticulated tracery in panels is dated 1879.

2 Gothic wall memorial tablets in black and white marble to commemorate Catherine Martha-Clarke d.1818 and John Clarke d.1858, by Barfield of Leicester.

Stained glass of 1877.

East window represents the good shepherd in a traditional medieval style with jewelled colours.

C13 font is a plain rough round basin.