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St Peter

St Peter

Langley Burrell

Wiltshire

Anglican parish church, C1200, C1300, C14 and C15, carefully restored 1890 (chancel) by C.E. Ponting and 1898 (nave and north aisle) by H. Brakspear

Architectural Features

South side has C15 flat headed 4-light window with hoodmould

Hipped porch of c1300 with small upper lancet and gargoyle each face, 2-chamfer pointed arch and Perpendicular 2-light west window with hoodmould

Porch interior has fine C15 tierceron-star vault with carved corbels and bosses, tall plank door in pointed arched doorway, west side stone seat and north side early C18 door to tower in raised moulded depressed- arched surround

Three-stage tower, early C14 has flat parapet, ball-flower frieze and large 2-light pointed bell- openings

Bottom stage has fine but mutilated early C14 tomb recess with ball-flower and cusping

East side has barbed- trefoil head of a C14 window

lower part lost for small late C15 south east chapel

Chancel of c1300 has south side,small boarded opening into sedilia and C15 flat-headed 3-light window

East end low angle and centre buttresses and early C14 triple stepped cusped lancets

North side has one C15 three- light window and two c1300 cusped lancets

North aisle has C15 lower pitched roof

ashlar battlemented parapet with finials and 3- light windows on north side each side of C13 pointed door

Interior: Nave has C15 wagon roof with moulded ribs

5 bays on finely carved corbels

Three-bay c1200 north arcade with circular piers, bases and circular caps with sparse stiff-leaf carving

At west end a small additional arch added in early C14

Fine moulded chancel arch of c1300, shafted with moulded caps to right, carved leaf caps to left, keel-moulding between large inner shafts and smaller outer shafts

Cinquefoil rear arch to original window head, with fine carved head stops

North aisle has C15 low- pitched 4-bay roof, moulded beams, rear arches to west and east windows and mutilated canopied niche with smaller niche over in north east angle

Fine pair of C14 sedilia, the larger one with cinquefoil head and crocketed gable, the smaller one cinquefoil-cusped

To right of sedilia, broad C15 four-centred arch into south east chapel

Fittings: Nave c1860 ornate font

C18 fielded panelled pulpit

North aisle C18 baluster font, and large plaque to T. Ashe died 1823, signed T. King

Chancel has stained glass of c1900-10

two mid C17 plaques

east end good plaque with carved arms to Rev A. Lynch died 1691 and C18 turned baluster communion rails