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St Peter And St Paul

Broadwell

Oxfordshire

C12 with C13 alterations, including bell-chamber and spire, transepts, south porch, north chapel, and remodelling of chancel

Architectural Features

Coursed rubble limestone with plain tile roofs

West tower is of 3 stages with C12 pilaster buttresses to 2 lower stages, and trefoil-headed single lights to mid stage

C13 bell-chamber has tall 2-light windows with plate tracery, blocked below transoms

Short nave has one bay of large 3-light Perpendicular windows, that to north almost full-height with carved angel stops to hoodmould

C12 south doorway, much restored, has 3 nook-shafts with carved capitals to each jamb, and semi-circular arch with dogtooth and chevron ornament and tabbed roll-moulding

North door of nave is also C12, but small, with single roll-moulding

South transept has C13 south window with 3 trefoil-headed lights, and 2 early C19 memorial tablets on east wall

North chapel also has moulded parapet and lead roof, the east wall with C13 window with 3 trefoil-headed lights, the north wall with late C15 3-light window

In south wall are a lowside window and 2 2-light traceried windows, one C13, the other C14

Fine tower arch is C12, with 2 roll mouldings on moulded impost bands, the jambs having shafts with scalloped capitals and zig-zag ornament

Arches between nave and transepts and chancel are C13, that to north transept on large semi-circular piers with highly restored stiff-leaf capitals, the other arches on shafts with moulded capitals

C19 nave roof on restored stone corbels with carved heads

South transept has good C13 piscina with trefoil head, moulded arch on shafts, and carved foliage gable, and image stand with corbel and arched head in south-east corner

Chapel has good C15/C16 roof of moulded timbers on variously carved stone corbels

C13 arch to chancel

In north wall are 3 shallow C15/C16 niches with 4-centred heads, and a low rectangular recess with piscina

Fittings: C12 stone font with quatrefoil basin on shafted stand, the shafts with moulded bases and strings and scalloped capitals, the basin with nailhead frieze and a long carved head between lobes on east side

Carved and painted wooden panel in north transept has arms of James I and date 1622, and is re-set in pedimented surround dated GR 1829

Other fittings and glass are C19

Monuments: north chapel has fine stone wall tablet to John Huband 1668, in richly moulded surround with festooned side scrolls and swan-neck pediment

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