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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Bromley, Greater London

The C19 church, except for the C15 tower, was entirely destroyed by a 550 pound bomb in April 1941

Architectural Features

The C15 tower is embattled and has a polygonal north east stair turret that rises above the parapet

Of three stages, it has a heavily restored C15-style west window, but no west door

The C15 tower arch, which had a hollow chamfered outer order and an inner order, also hollow chamfered on polygonal responds with moulded capitals and high bases, has been underbuilt and now has plain doors opening from the apsidal chapel

the C12 font survived the damage in 1941, and has a square bowl with blind arcading

A C14 door with ogee tracery that survived the destruction of the old church hangs in the base of the tower

Also in the north ambulatory are Thornhill brasses of c.1600 and those for the Tweedy family

The church has some good 1950s glass by ME Aldrich Rope

There was certainly a church here by the early C12

It was largely rebuilt in the C14, and the tower was built or rebuilt in the C15