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St Peter

St Peter

Windrush

Gloucestershire

C12, C14, C15, chancel restored in 1874 by Henry Woodyer.

Architectural Features

Small C15 two-light window with casement-moulded and stopped hood, lighting clerestory above.

Parapet with moulded string and three large gargoyles in the form of carved heads.

SP1913 : Windrush, St. Peter's Church: Finely carved c12th ram's head 3

C19 plank south door with decorative hinges within a round- headed C12 surround, decorated with a finely carved double row of beak heads.

SP1913 : Windrush, St. Peter's Church: Finely carved c12th ram's head 3

© Michael Garlick

Four-light C15 window left within rectangular casement-moulded surround with stopped hood and moulded stone mullions.

Battlemented parapet with moulded string with large animal head gargoyles.

C12 chancel arch with ornate jamb shafts and scalloped capitals, abaci with sawtooth decoration slightly later pointed arch above.

C15 five-bay king-post roof to nave with braced collar supported on reused C12 corbels in the form of animal heads.

C19 coloured and encaustic tile flooring.

The ground around the font is subsiding and work needs to be done to stabilise it.

fine C15 octagonal stone font adjacent to south door with quatrefoils in each face.

The ground around the font is subsiding and work needs to be done to stabilise it.

© Michael Garlick

C17 carved oak pulpit with blind arcading and 'S'-scrolls decoration.

Monuments

C17 ledger to right of altar to Michael Mills.

Laterally corded bale with deep shell niche. Moulded ledger Chest with pilasters with elaborate acanthus decoration. Sides have blind round headed arches. 
North side has oval plaque with foliate surround with inscription to William Trinder (died 1677) Details of 5 other Trinders, all somewhat illegible
NGR SP 8941836096 GV II

Ledger left of altar to Mary, wife of Michael Mills, Vicar of Windrush, died 1683.

Laterally corded bale with deep shell niche. Moulded ledger Chest with pilasters with elaborate acanthus decoration. Sides have blind round headed arches. North side has oval plaque with foliate surround with inscription to William Trinder (died 1677) Details of 5 other Trinders, all somewhat illegible NGR SP 8941836096 GV II

© Basher Eyre

Ledger leaning against east wall of Hungerford Chapel to George Hungerford (q.v. The Manor) and Katherin, his wife, daughter of Edward Fabian of Compton, Berkshire, died 1597.