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St Peter

St Peter

Farmington

Gloucestershire

C12, Transitional, C13, C14, late Perpendicular, north aisle rebuilt 1890-1.

Architectural Features

C12 nave and chancel with flat-chamfered plinth.

C12 corbel table comprising simple brackets.

Two C13 two-light windows with plate tracery and scroll-moulded hoods and stops.

Blocks with shallow carved chevron motif reused lower down in wall.

corbel table as on south wall, some corbels decorated with carved beasts or human heads.

Two, 2-light trefoil-headed bellcote openings with carved spandrels and stone slate louvres to third stage.

C14 buttressed porch on south side of nave with pointed arch of 2 orders and moulded hood.

C20 plank door to nave within C12 surround with intersecting circles on the level, diaper decoration on tympanum and enclosed in a chevroned arch supported on jamb shafts with voluted capitals and tongued bases.

Carved saddle (probably formerly with cross finial) at apex of porch gable.

Fine C12 chancel arch of 3 orders rising from engaged columns with voluted capitals.

Chevroned decoration to two outer orders, inner order decorated with double chevron motif with finely carved 4-petal flowers in addition.

Blocked single C12 round-headed light above arch.

Carved stone fragment possibly representing a gate, set in splay of window right of altar.

octagonal stone font of 1784 in Gothick style, inside south door.

Fine early C18 oak pulpit decorated with simple inlay, finely carved nulling around top.

Fine brass Art Nouveau lectern in memory of Major General William Noel Waller, died 1909.

C17 communion rail with turned balusters.

Monuments

small brass inscription plaque to 'Thomas Cox of Lincolns Inn Barraster, died 1658' under chancel arch.

Two small brass plaques either side one to 'Dorothy Smith, wife of William Smith of Alvscote, Oxon, died 1668'.

One to Humphrey Smith, died 1659.

Small brass plaque set in ledger to Winnifred Smith, died 1662.

Right-hand ledger to Humphrey Smith died 1688/7.

Possibly C16 or C17 carved stone decorated with heraldic emblems comprising a crowned rose at centre, tree on right and a gate-like emblem (the latter matching the carved stone set in the splay of a window in the chancel).

Three C20 monuments on south wall of nave.

C19 stained glass in east window.