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St Peter And St Paul

Leighton

Shropshire

Medieval fabric, partly re-built in 1660s, thoroughly restored 1854.

Architectural Features

Uncoursed limestone rubble with coursed rubble to C19 parts, plain tile roofs with coped stone verges.

Nave: medieval or C17 fabric on south side with 2-light Decorated-style window to east of mid-C19 gabled stone porch

similar window to west wall, corbelled-out timber framed belfry above probably C17 but considerably restored, close-set vertical posts with 2 middle rails and quatrefoil frieze to top, twin trefoil-headed openings below wide spreading eaves of pyramidal roof with brass weathercock

north side also with mid-C19 Decorated- style window to east but retains medieval fabric and has an early C14 cusped lancet with blocked lowside window below to west

double hammer-beam roof to nave in 3 bays (outer trusses restored) supported on elaborately carved wall brackets, straight wind- braces and V-struts from collars

the belfry rests on 2 wooden posts with arch bracing, tie beams and quatrefoil struts - a stone in the north wall of the nave is lettered "RICD HARNAGE/RH 1669/GEO.HARNAGE/1845"

trussed rafter roof to chancel with moulded eaves cornice probably C14, although some of the decorative motifs to the cornice (including ball-flower and dog-tooth ornament) are probably mid- C19

trefoil-headed piscina probably also C14

2 mid-C17 chairs flank altar

pulpit also C17 and some of the pews are of this date

plain apparently mid- C19 font on circular plinth and C19 stained glass in East window by H. Hughes Monument: remarkable effigy of a recumbent female figure, perhaps a child, only 0.7m long, and probably C14 - now at east end of nave but said to have been found in chancel during C19 restoration.