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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Longbridge Deverill

Wiltshire

The three-bay north aisle has a blocking course, two two-light C16 cusped mullioned windows and one three-light window with arched lights with keystones

Architectural Features

INTERIOR: the porch has a pointed inner doorway with hoodmould with carved heads and a braced collar-rafter roof

The tower arch has C14 stylised leaf capitals to a double chamfered arch, and there is a pointed doorway to the stairs

In the chancel are polychrome encaustic floor tiles by Minton, Hollins & Co., and stamped ceramic wall decoration

The chapel has a polychrome tiled floor and wall tiles, decorated with the Bath arms

The Art Nouveau bronze and alabaster memorial font or stoup to Lord John Thynne (d.1887) is by Alfred Gilbert and was formerly in the tower

It was brought here, along with a number of other smaller monuments, from the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Hill Deverill when it closed in the late C20

OTHER FITTINGS: in the nave is a C13 cylindrical font with enriched scallops to the underside and a C17 cover

baroque-style wooden pulpit

carved with figures of saints and set in a Jacobean Revival frame

carved by Herbert Read of Exeter

relief Royal Arms over the south door

There is a varied collection of stained glass: the east window dated 1931 is by C E Kempe & Co

C17 wooden memorials to the Coker family