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St Peter

St Peter

Radford

Somerset

C15, extension (and restoration?) dated 1638, major restoration and extension 1891 by Garner.

Architectural Features

third stage, above weathered string has one two-light window per side, smaller hood moulds, above cornice with gargoyles is a castellated parapet with crocketted corner pinaccles, stair turret, slightly higher with smaller castellation.

Gabled north chapel, dated 1638, of two bays with thin buttresses, to west is a three-light restored window as nave above a plank door in a tudor arch, blank quatrefoil in gable, east end is the same but lacks door, to north two similar windows and castellated parapet.

Fittings: much restored octagonal font of C15 ascription with Jacobean hood

C18 timber pulpit with raised and fielded panels and thin foliate carving

C17 parish chest.

Monuments: the north manor chapel contains two glorious Carew monuments.

Sir John Carew and wife Elizabeth, 1640, recumbent figures on a large chest tomb with paired corner pilasters flanking crests and frieze to ends and praying family and children to sides, a good deal of colour remains

John Carew, died 1683 and Dorothy, again recumbent figures, this time with angel on elaborate chest tomb with Ruscan columns and seated daughters in niches

wall monument, Thomas Carew, 1719, marble, composite columns, pediment with putti and acroterion, half-relief busts flank coat of arms, apron with text

another wall monument, Elizabeth Carew, died 1747, dark marble ground, broken pediment, text supported by scrolls, apron with putto

Lansdowne family wall monument in aisle, first date 1668, Ionic columns carry pediment with coat of arms, they flank slate cartouche with memento mori and text, corbels flank apron with putto and swags

in the aisle is a reclining female figure, remnant of a late C17 tomb?