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St Peter

St Peter

Saxelbye

Leicestershire

C13-C15, restored 1856-7.

Architectural Features

Cusped lozenge frieze to base of battlemented parapet with gargoyles to angles.

Font - Octagonal with quatrefoils to sides, castellated top and attached shafts to base.

Pulpit - Late C15/early C16, polygonal with elaborate pierced tracery to top of panels which retain traces of original painted leaf-trail decoration.

Monuments: Incised alabaster slab with effigy of knight - Robert Brokesby d.1531.

Slate wall monument with shaped top to William Stephens d 1681. apron inscribed Step.

Slate wall monument with shaped top to William Stevens d.1755 with winged hourglass to apron encircled by serpent biting its tail and flanked by trumpets.