St Peter

Swepstone

Leicestershire

SWEPSTONE CHURCH STREET (west side) SK 31 SE 5/96 Church of St. Peter 24.11.65 II* GV Church of C14, C15 and C19.

C14 C15 C16 C17 STAINED GLASS CARVINGS MONUMENT MEDIEVAL

Architectural Features

C14 C15

Mainly of C14, C15 clerestory, tower cased 1842 with ashlar, chancel rebuilt in 1869 and S porch in 1870.

CARVINGS

Windows mainly have hood-moulds with carved head label stops.

CARVINGS

Finely carved choir stalls of 1886 and pulpit of 1887.

STAINED GLASS

C19 stained glass in E and SE windows with NE window by Powell, Highgate, c1930.

MEDIEVAL C17 C16 MONUMENT

C17-C19 wall monuments, alabaster tomb chest with effigy of William Humfrey of 1591 and mediaeval effigy of a Lady, wearing a wimple, on embattled arcaded tomb chest decorated with shields within quatrefoils.