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St Peter

St Peter

Wintringham

North Yorkshire

Early C14 incorporating C12 chancel, with rebuilt east end of C15

Architectural Features

early C14 arcades and chancel arch

late C14 tower, repaired 1818

C15 nave windows.

Chamfered eaves band with carved water spouts.

Plain parapet with carved heads in place of pinnacles.

East end of both aisles closed off by C15 embattled screens of open traceried panels.

In south chapel thus formed is a trefoil-headed piscina in the south wall and a carved niche with ribbed and crocketed canopy on north side.

C17 poppyhead nave pewing

lectern and pulpit incorporate C17 panelling, some carved.

SE8873 : Wintringham, St. Peter's Church: Two-decker pulpit (detail)

Octagonal pulpit tester with pendant finials.

SE8873 : Wintringham, St. Peter's Church: Two-decker pulpit (detail)

© Michael Garlick

C17 baluster poorbox carved with flowers and foliage.

SE8873 : Wintringham, St. Peter's Church: The font

Norman tub font with tall octagonal cover painted with winged cherubs and dated 1736.

SE8873 : Wintringham, St. Peter's Church: The font

© Michael Garlick

Other fittings include a 1723 hatchment in tower

two C19 brass chandeliers.

Stained glass: series of C15 saints in the tracery of all nave and aisle windows.

Monument: on chancel north respond a painted memorial to John Lister in the form of an acrostic.

north wall plate retained, dated 1685.

Some roof corbels carved as heads or fleurons.