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St Peter

St Peter

Claybrooke Parva

Leicestershire

CLAYBROOKE PARVA MAIN STREET SP48NE 1323-0 2/33 (South side) 11/01/55 Church of St Peter I Parish church.

Architectural Features

Possible C12 remains, rebuilt circa 1300 with chancel of circa 1340 in curvilinear Decorated style.

Nave possibly rebuilt towards end of C14 Tower rebuilt in early C17 with stones dated 1614 in second stage and 1615 in top stage.

Single quatrefoil openings below parapet with early C17, Perpendicular-style windows in same stage below, of four lights, two on two, each with semi-circular cusped head and upper quatrefoil.

West window, probably of C14, restored, of two lights with single upper light in chamfered surround with hollow-chamfered hoodmould carried across face of tower.

South aisle with two-light window to right, probably a C17 copy of C14 work,

a wide C15 or even C16 window to left.

Below the central north window are two doorways, the lefthand one round-arched and probably the remains of a C12 former priest's doorway to the former sacristy, now gone, but the gabled roofline of which remains against the south aisle, and the righthand one with a triple hollow-chamfered ogee surround and the remains of side crocketted finials.

Four-bay nave arcades with late C14 red sandstone piers with four shafts and four hollows, carrying arches with double wave-mouldings.

Pre-C14 roof line visible at west end against tower.

C14 nave roof with brattished tie-beams, arcaded in the spandrels of the braces and to either side of the king-posts.

Restored 1876-78, but with retention of C14 work.

C14 tower arch with double chamfers on piers similar to those of the nave arcades.

Fittings: font, probably by Street, 1876-78.

Arcaded and traceried stone pulpit, also probably by Street, 1876-78.

Remains of the base of roodscreen, probably C15.

Some C14 stained glass fragments in chancel windows.