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St Peter

Redditch

Worcestershire

C13 with C14

Architectural Features

C15 alterations and additions

plain tiled roofs with decorative ridge tiles and parapets at gable ends with cross finials.

West tower: C15

Nave: C13 and originally with C13 south aisle

C14 north aisle

Chancel: C14, restored in C19

C13 south arcade had both cylindrical and octagonal piers and the capital of the south-west-respond is carved with head and foliated detail

Early C14 seven-sided font

Ornate Jacobean pulpit with intricate strapwork detail from Easton in Herefordshire.

Also small C17 Netherlandish wood relief of the Sacrifice of Isaac attached to the north jamb of the chancel arch.

Memorials: two alabaster floor slabs in the chancel originally inlaid with bitumen to Nicholas Huband, died 1553, and his wife Dorothy, died 1558 and to Sir John Huband, died 1583 and his wife, died 1557.

At the west end of the nave on the north side is a large late C17 wall memorial, to Anne Huband, died 1672, which has a swan-necked pediment, a scrolled architrave, Corinthian columns and a coat of arms.

Despite consider- able C19 restoration work this church retains a significant amount of its medieval masonry, notably in the tower

the medieval font, pulpit and memorials are of particular interest. (VCH 3, p 125 - 6