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St Peter

St Peter

Tilton on the Hill

Leicestershire

The fabric spans from the late C12 to C15.

Architectural Features

Lowest stages probably late C12 with south doorway and lancet window to west.

Paired C13 lights with plate tracery to bell chamber above.

Embattled parapet with gargoyles, and recessed spire of C14, with 2 tiers of lucarnes.

South aisle is late C13 with 3 south windows of 3 stepped lancets, and west window of 3 lancets with foiled circle above.

The porch is probably C15 or C16, 4-centred archway in squared hoodmould with coped gable, and sun dial in apex.

Buttresses capped by pinnacles, and gargoyles, all this detail a Perpendicular re-working.

Chancel dates partly from late C12, with a priest's door of that date, a small round archway.

Buttressed north aisle with pinnacles, gargoyles and corbel table below parapet.

Inside, late C12 tower arch no longer central to alignment of church, with shafted responds, with stiff leaf capitals and square abaci, and 3 steps to arch.

Nave arcades of 5 bays, the south the earlier, and late C13.

There is another carved head at the apex of each arch.

2 of the capitals are elaborately carved: 1 with winged angels heads, the other with creeping beasts, a lion, a monkey, a fox and a lamb.

The roof timbers date from a restoration of 1854, but the bosses and corbel heads appear to be C15.

C18 glazing to east window, and some fragments of medieval glass.

Wall memorial tablet, late C16 to Augustin Nichols and his wife, painted marble, with 2 kneeling figures at a Prie Dieu in an aedicule with 12 children, 3 in shrouds, surmounted by strap work with human profiles, and a shield of arms.

Large C17 tomb chest with heraldic emblems in high relief on each side, to William Nichols, d.

Other monuments to members of Digby family, 2 between south aisle and nave, to Sir John Digby and his wife, 1269.

Against the south wall is the tomb of Sir Everard Digby, d.1509.

Stone Victorian pulpit, 1854.

C12 font, base with 8 circular shafts and square basin with chamfered corners, carved like a cushion capital.