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St Peter

St Peter

Barnburgh

South Yorkshire

C11-C12 lower tower, arcade of C1200, otherwise C14

Architectural Features

C15 upper stage with offset and string course beneath transomed, 2-light belfry openings with continuous hoodmould.

String course with corner gargoyles

Nave, south aisle and chancel roofs C15 with cambered tie beams and bosses.

Nave has octagonal font with billets round base.

Good Romanesque cross shaft near north aisle pier has acanthus carving and figures in high relief (Ryder, p103).

Medieval parclose screen encloses chapel in south aisle, similar screen at east end of north aisle.

North chapel has excellent early C14 wooden effigy of knight with heart in hands

Wall monument to Vincent family on south wall of chapel, Thomas Vincent ,also brass to Anna Cresacre the ward and later daughter-in-law of Sir Thomas More.

Brass in chancel to Alice wife of G. Mompesson.

P. F. Ryder, Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, South Yorkshire County Council Archaeology Monograph, No 2, 1982.