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St Peter

St Peter

Bourton on Dunsmore

Warwickshire

C13 origins

Architectural Features

rebuilt C14

Old tile roofs have coped gable parapets with gablet kneelers and C19 cross finials

C19 south priest's door has eroded C13 moulded jambs with wood lintel

Chancel has C17 moulded and cusped king post roof

Fittings: C13/early C14 octagonal font has trefoiled gables

2-decker Jacobean pulpit dated 1607

C17 turned baluster altar rails

Monuments: chancel south: Reverend William Huddesford 1770

Wall monument with open pediment

Wall monument with segmental pediment, crest cartouche, volutes and slate panel, Chapel has stone effigey of a lady of c.1300, upright against south wall

C18 floor slabs, and C19 Gothic wall monuments to Shuckburgh family

Hatchments of Sophia (1848), John (1837), Colonel Richard (1773) and Reverend Charles (1875) Shuckburgh

Stained glass: south aisle window 1900 by Kempe. (V.C.H.: Warwickshire, Vol.VI, pp.40-41