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St Peter

St Peter

Dumbleton

Gloucestershire

C12, C13, C14

Architectural Features

C15, chancel restored in 1862 as commemorated on the east gable end.

Leaded roof to nave and south aisle: red tile roofing to transept and chancel

Nave south wall: C20 double doors with a Tudor-arched surround with carved spandrels inserted within a C12 opening with engaged jamb shafts with scalloped capitals supporting a chevroned arch with roll-moulded outer arch with later carved head at the apex

C13 lancet with ovolo and casement mouldings and moulded hood with small head stops, to the right.

Eroded C12 corbel table each with varying decoration.

Two rectangular C15 two-light windows with trefoil-headed lights and eroded jambs to the north side of the clerestorey.

C20 double plank doors with Tudor-arched stone lintel with carved spandrels towards the west end of the south wall and set within a tall flat- chamfered pointed arch, now partially blocked.

SP0135 : Dumbleton, St. Peter's Church: The Norman north doorway with its Tudor entrance

blocked Tudor-arched priest's door with an early-mid C17 two-light window with stilted-headed lights and hollow-chamfered mullions.

SP0135 : Dumbleton, St. Peter's Church: The Norman north doorway with its Tudor entrance

© Michael Garlick

5 reused C12 corbels on the east below a string course

Plank door with decorative hinges within a moulded Tudor-arched surround with hood framing rectangular panels of foliate decoration

reused 2-light late C16-early C17 stone- mullioned window to the north wall.

Three-stage tower with C13 lower stages

C15 upper stage.

C13 corbel table with matching moulded corbels

Two-light belfry windows to the C15 stage with pierced decorative shuttering

C15 roof to nave with cambered principal rafters

C13 tower arch of 3 orders the inner dying in at the height of the springing

possibly C14 chancel arch with double hollow-moulded C14 arch to transept

2- bay south arcade, rebuilt C15, the easternmost arch has a crudely executed segmental-headed head incorporating some C12 stonework with pellet decoration

the other is a crudely executed 'Tudor' arch

Large probably C15 piscina with roll-moulded trefoil- headed surround in the south wall of the chancel

small probably C14 piscina also with a trefoil head set on the sill of the window immediately to the right.

SP0135 : Dumbleton, St. Peter's Church: c14th style font made in 1661

C14 style octagonal stone font with inscription dated 1661 under the west arch of the arcade.

SP0135 : Dumbleton, St. Peter's Church: c14th style font made in 1661

© Michael Garlick

Early C20 pews, choir stalls and pulpit with finely carved decoration utilising apple, vine and bursting seed pod motifs.

Two early C18 carved oak chairs in the sanctuary.

C19 stained glass window, two further C19 windows to the chancel.

Monuments on the north wall of the chancel from left to right: alabaster and marble monument to Thomas Cocks of Cleeve, died 1554, large bust of bearded man in robes with foliate oval surround and a segmental pediment

white marble monument to Harriet Ancrum, C20 Hoptonwood stone tablet with lettering by Eric Gill

fine painted monument to Sir Charles Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland and Dorothy his wife, he died 1628, she died 1646, comprising two kneeling figures within a deep round-headed niche flanked by free-standing Corinthian columns

The figures are painted as are the motifs decorating the remainder of the monument with gilded high-lights.

Monuments on chancel south wall from left to right: simple rectangular marble monument with moulded surround to Dorothy Cocks, died 1714

simple limestone tablet to Thomas Washbourne, died 1681

fine alabaster and marble monument to Richard Cocks and Dame Susanna his wife, he died 1684, she died 1689.

two white marble C19 monuments and three brass plaques, one to Edward Holland, died 1875 (q.v. Dumbleton Hall).

Two C18 marble monuments to members of the Cocks family in the south aisle.

Large grey marble monument to Frances Lady Cocks, died 1723 on the north wall of the nave with a long inscription flanked by pilasters, heraldry and urns at top.