St Peter

EXTERIOR: The three stage tower is C12 in its lower stages, with big diagonal buttresses

upper stage added in the C15.

The south aisle has two-light plate tracery windows which are copies of medieval windows.

The embattled south porch is in castellated style, with turret-like clasping polygonal buttresses which are panelled above impost level, and four-centred entrance with carved spandrel and angel corbel to a central polygonal turret.

Inside is the re-set C12 south doorway, which has two orders of nook-shafts and striated decoration to capitals and arches: an outer order of interlace and inner order of intersecting arches.

The tower arch is c1200 in origin, evidence for which is provided by nook-shafts and tentative stiff-leaf capitals, but it was modified in the C14, with an inner order on foliage corbels, on one side sprouting from naturalistic heads.

The nave retains a late medieval king-post roof, which has painted shield-bearing figures on the corbelled brackets, and tracery above the beams.

There are also three stepped sedilia under cusped heads, and piscina with similar detail, in the south aisle, perhaps moved from the chancel when the chancel was enlarged in the C14.

Plain tiles are in the nave, with parquet floors below seating.

PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The C13 font has a round bowl, and stem with attached shafts and vertical band of dog-tooth.

Pulpit and chancel screen are by E. Turner, of 1883.

The polygonal pulpit has blind tracery

One late C15 priest's stall, taken from a large set, has a misericord.

There is an early C19 Hanoverian Royal Arms.

There are three memorials of special interest: a late C12 coped tomb slab in the chancel

a Renaissance wall monument framed by Ionic pilasters (harshly painted, and all much restored) with strapwork, to Ambrose Belgrave , and a 1914-18 war memorial with a roll call over 4 panels, flanked by sculpted infantrymen in niches.

The lower stages of the tower and the re-set south doorway survive from the C12 church.

It was enlarged in two phases the C13 when aisles were added.

The chancel was enlarged in the C14

the clerestorey added in the C15, possibly at the same time as the tower was heightened.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Peter, Belgrave, is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * It is a substantial parish church with significant architectural features of the C12-15, including C12 doorway, C12-C15 tower and C13 arcades. * It has a fine late-medieval nave roof. * Fittings of special interest include the C13 font, C13 and C14 sedilia, C12 grave slab

C16 wall monument. * The church is an integral component of a strong historical group with Belgrave Hall and Belgrave House, both of the C18, and other associated listed items, forming the nucleus of the former village.

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register.