St Peter
Tickencote
Rutland
Church, C12, restored, partly rebuilt and added to 1792 in Norman style by S P Cockerell, nave re-roofed and re-seated 1872, Consists of 3-bay nave, 2-bay chancel with priest's chamber above, south tower of 2 storeys and bell-stage, north vestry.
Architectural Features
Interior: Outstanding mid C12 round-headed chancel arch of 6 elaborately decorated orders on ornamental capitals.
The innermost order is roll-moulded, the 2nd has beak-heads, the 3rd zig-zags and crenellations, the 4th various motifs - heads, figures, animals and foliage - the 5th zig-zag and the outermost stylized leaf mouldings surrounded by a billet-moulding.
The chancel has a sexpartite rib-vault, perhaps c.1160-70 and of its type unique.
Square late C12 font with interlaced arcaded decoration, on recut base.
The font situated at the base and right hand side of the Norman chancel arch
C14 wooden effigy in chancel.
Wooden altar table of 1627.