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St Peter

St Peter

Witherley

Leicestershire

Early C14, with a C15 west tower and a chancel of 1858 by Robert Jennings of Atherstone.

Architectural Features

plain tile roofs with stone coped verges.

immediately below the parapet there are two gargoyles on each side.

The C14 gabled south porch has a large wave-moulded entrance arch carried on corbels carved as heads

Inside, the south entrance has 2 orders of convex quarter-round mouldings and a hood mould with head stops, and retains a medieval door with strap hinges.

C15/C16 clerestorey, each window having 2 lancet lights and sunken spandrels beneath a square head.

C15/C16 nave roof of low pitch on cambered tie beams supported by brackets which spring from wooden corbels.

On the soffit of each tie beam is a carved boss (c.f. Church of St. Margaret, Stoke Golding C.P.

Fixtures and fittings: C15 octagonal stone font with trefoil-headed arcading to the sides of the basin of the same type as that on the parapet of the tower.

C19/C20 octagonal wooden pulpit entered from a door in the south-east corner of the nave which communicates with the vestry to the rear.

C14 sedilia with cusping above and below the ogee arches.

Monuments: In the nave, a pedimented tablet to Richard and Theodisia Farmer, died 1764 and 1768

Stained glass: medieval remnants in the south windows of the nave