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St Peter

St Peter

Willersey

Gloucestershire

SP 1039-1139 WILLERSEY CHURCH STREET (north side) 14/163 Church of St. Peter 25.8.60 I Anglican Parish Church, C12 nave with blocked S doorway.

Architectural Features

C13 N porch.

N aisle rebuilt C13.

C15 tower.

Blocked Norman doorway in S wall with plain semi-circular tympanum supported on moulded imposts.

C13 porch with pointed, flat- chamfered arch with hood.

String just above top of buttresses, another string course with gargoyles at the 4 corners just below embattlemented parapet with 4 pinnacles.

Angel projects from each capital.

S wall: C14 piscina with ogee head and credence shelf Geometric coloured tiles form floor of crossing and aisles in the nave and S transept.

Chancel has C19 roof as in nave and transepts but with cusped braces supported on decorative corbels Fragments of medieval stained glass in W window depicting two figures and 2 stags.

C19 stained glass in the W wall of the S transept.

Furniture: Norman tub shaped font on modern pillar and plinth, in N transept.

C19 pews and pulpit.

Monuments: C19 stone tablet with gold lettering on blocking of S doorway.

Royal arms of George III, right.

Chancel: two C19 marble tablets and one marble monument in the form of a sarcophagus on the left wall.