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St Peter

St Peter

Purse Caundle

Dorset

West tower and chancel-arch, C15.

Architectural Features

North chapel, early C16.

Clay-tile roofs.

The south doorway, reset late C14 has a chamfered two-centred head and continuous jambs with shaped stops.

South wall has 2 C15 windows.

South porch, 1883, has a reset C15 archway with an ogee- moulded four-centred head with continuous jambs.

Interior: Chancel-arch, C15, has moulded and panelled responds and soffit, two panels wide, with trefoiled heads to the panels.

ST6917 : St. Peter, Purse Caundle: font

Font, stone octagonal bowl with panel on each face, bossed underside, stem and base, C15.

ST6917 : St. Peter, Purse Caundle: font

© Basher Eyre

Brasses, reset in chancel and in north chapel, C16.

Communion rails, C17.

Communion table, C17.

Bible, black-letter of c 1630, north chapel.

Pulpit, hexagonal with fielded-panels and sounding-board, early C18.

Monuments and floor-slabs.

Canopied table-tomb, ascribed to William Long, 1524. (RCHM).

Stone slabs and tablets to Hoskyns family, C17 and C18.

Hatchment, with arms of Hoskyns impaling Seymer, dated 1694. (RCHM, Dorset III, p 234(1)).