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St Peter Parish Church Of St Peter

Raunds

Northamptonshire

C12, C13 and C14, some C19 restoration

Architectural Features

Several windows have carved label stops

2 stage buttresses between bays and ashlar parapets with 2 gargoyles

The north face has. corbelled Y-tracery with carved figures at the apex of each arch and musicians in each spandrel

Interior: C13 five-bay nave arcade of double chamfered arches with octagonal piers

South arcade has half arch at abutment with chancel and second pier from chancel is formed of 2 octagonal responds, probably corresponding with the transept of the C12 church

Evidence of C12 window head above south arcade

Triple chamfered tower arch with shafts has C15 stone clock dial in apex

C13 circular font with rams head attached to bowl

C18 polygonal table was formerly the tester of the pulpit

Brass chandelier given in 1762

Monuments: brasses to John Tawyer died 1470 and wife, also Lady c.1500 both to right of chancel altar and slab with brass indents to left

Wall painting: C15, nave, north wall: pride and her 6 children, St

Chancel arch, angels with instruments of the passion

Stained glass: east window by Kempe 1907

2 C20 windows in north aisle and one in south aisle with reset fragments of medieval glass in the apex. (Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, p.381

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