Winchcombe
Gloucestershire
SP 02 28 WINCHCOMBE GLOUCESTER STREET (north side) 4/33 Church of St Peter 4.7.60 - I Anglican parish church. c.1458 to 1468.
Tower in 4 stages, diago- nal buttresses with 4 offsets and plinth, stair vice to north-east and large gargoyles to each buttress, good plank door under stopped drip and 4-foil spandrels, 4-light window over, then, above continuous drip, a small 2-light below large 4-light with transome, all in Perpendicular.
Aisles have 3- light Perpendicular between buttresses with offsets and under continuous drip mould with large coarsed gargoyles
Upper parts of chancel including crenellation replaced 1872 by John Drayton Wyatt, having been modified, with a steep-pitched roof in 1690.
South Porch with 2-light window over a figure of St.Peter in niche with pinnacles, 2-light windows east and west, and deep hollow-mould-surround to outer door in stopped drip with spandrels, a pair of fine C18 inner doors in similar surround, and fan-vault to ground floor.
At bay 6 rebuilt mediaeval screen, and above this a Cl9 openwork timber 'chancel arch'
Roof as nave, but carried on angel corbels.
All floors C19 red, black and cream tiles.
Pews and fittings generally part of 1870 restoration, some mediaeval glass fragments in win- dow 8 to south aisle and in lady chapel including east window, otherwise series of consistent and well coloured C20 designs.
In tower arch large Royal Arms, time of Geo III, John Burnham and Thomas Fisher recorded as church-wardens.
This is a remarkably con- sistent, but restrained design replacing a decayed earlier fabric: for a brief period in the C15 the parishioners worshipped in the nave of the immediately adjacent Abbey (now completely destroyed).