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St Peter

St Peter

Torksey

Lincolnshire

Early C13, late C13, C16, 1821 rebuilding of nave, aisle and chancel.

Architectural Features

The C16 2 stage, angle buttressed, tower is in squared limestone rubble and has a moulded plinth and cyma moulded string course, battlemented parapet with 4 corner pinnacles.

The west window is of 3 lights with late C13 intersecting tracery set in a C16 deeply concave moulded surround with hood mould.

Above is a kneeling carved figure.

The early C13 3 bay north arcade has filleted quatrefoil piers having good octagonal stiff leaf capitals, double chamfered arches with hood moulds and label stops.

The C16 tall tower arch has one continuous outer chamfered order with hood mould, and an inner order springing from moulded impost blocks.

In the nave, high up in the south wall)s a pointed niche containing a reset worn seated figure, possi ly a C13 virgin and child.

The C13 chancel arch of 2 chamfered orders is supported on annular corbels with human heads to the undersides, that to the north being a bishop.

There is C19 glass in the chancel, and the south window is dated 1917.

Big Early English tub font in St.Peter's church

All fittings are C19 or C20 except far the font.

Big Early English tub font in St.Peter's church

© Richard Croft

This is an early C13 tub which has a zone of stiff leaf decoration around the top, a hobnail band around the middle, it sits on a C19 pedestal.

Monuments.

The altar table re-uses a C15 recumbent black letter slab with a shallow carving of a lady with coats of arms to either side of the head.