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St Peter And St Paul

Fareham, Hampshire

The NE chapel (formerly the chancel) incorporates some Saxon long-and-short work, a late Norman arch (formerly the chancel arch), C13 lancets and some C15 windows

Architectural Features

The NE chapel has a triple lancet E window and one lancet and the remains of two others in the N wall, a C13 doorway and 2 Perpendicular medieval square-headed windows

INTERIOR: The interior is more consistent than the exterior, the nave tall and light with a good shallow-pitched tie beam roof of large scantling, divided into panels with carved bosses

Encaustic tiles to chancel

The lights of the C13 triple lancet E window of the chapel are deeply splayed

Some medieval floor tiles survive

No pulpit

1930s font with an octagonal stone bowl on a stem with engaged shafts on a later large ashlar stone two-tier base

The E wall of the outer N chapel has a re-sited section of medieval oak screen, heavily repaired, probably a C15 reredos

Numerous wall monuments, the most ambitious is to Captain Newman (d 1811), by Sir Richard Westmacott, which has a relief of a sinking ship

Glass includes several windows by Burlisson and Grylls including a good C19 Jesse tree in the E window of the NE chapel, memorial date of 1887

Fittings include good quality Victorian features in the chancel and a remarkable C15 coved timber reredos (re-sited). The 1975 church hall extension is not of special interest

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