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St. Peter and St. Paul

St. Peter And St. Paul

Middlesbrough

North Yorkshire

Church, C13, with C15 tower and north transept

Architectural Features

3-bay nave has original C13 chamfered plinth, and 1897 windows with Decorated-style tracery under hoodmoulds.

Stepped-gabled transept on C13 or earlier foundation.

Hoodmoulds, the north with carved stops

carved mask above west window.

Plate tracery and hoodmoulds with carved stops.

Several fragments of medieval and Saxon carved stones, and 2 trefoil-headed windows, under hoodmoulds with masks stops, in north wall.

Large blind medieval plate-tracery quatrefoil, with flowers in spandrels and beaded hollow-chamfered surround, in gable.

INTERIOR: early C13 chamfered chancel arch, on round responds with chamfered capitals and bases.

Embattled and moulded wall plate with carved bosses.

1907 Caen stone pulpit, on marble shafts,and similar carved painted octagonal font.

Reredos of 1876 has 4 panels, with paintings of St. Peter, St. Paul and angels, flanking taller plain centre panel in gabled aedicule with cusped head, crockets and carved capitals

Marble wall monuments by Robert Taylor, in sanctuary

Other good C18 and C19 wall monuments and tablets in chancel, including one on north wall, 1808 by A. Bennison (Hull).

C14 effigy of male priest in south doorway.