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St Peter

Sheet

Hampshire

I GV 2. Church begun second quarter of C12, then cruciform with crossing tower

Architectural Features

Transepts extended to form wide aisles later in C12

South aisle doorway C12 with roll moulding and nook shafts with waterleaf capitals

Battlements to aisles and to tower whose two lower, C12 stages are of random rubble and two upper, Perpendicular stages of coursed freestone

At clerestory level 3 arches with rich mouldings, continuous abacus, many nook shafts and carved diaper work in spandrels

Imposing monuments to Jolliffe family in lower stage of tower, especially one to George Jolliffe, killed on the "Bellerophon" at Aboukir Bay

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