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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Mansfield Woodhouse

Nottinghamshire

West tower late C12, raised C14, spire 1666, restored 1897.

Architectural Features

North aisle C13

Nave C14.

Clerestorey, south aisle north and south chapels and transept C15.

Chancel c1475, incorporating C12 fragments.

MATERIALS: coursed rubble and ashlar, with ashlar dressings and leaded and plain tile roofs.

Square unbuttressed west tower, 3 stages, has string courses and crenellated parapet with gargoyles.

East end has sill band and stained-glass window by Kempe, 1905, flanked to right by an ogee headed door.

North and south sides have 2 chamfered pointed arches with half-octagon responds and C19 Perpendicular style traceried screens, with leaded glass in the west bays.

South chapel has stained-glass east window, 1875, flanked by ogee-headed door to left, and to right by an incised slab to a priest, c1280.

North chapel of St George has traceried panelled reredos, c1918, and stained-glass east window, C19.

North-west window has stained glass, 1912.

West end has late C12 rebated tower arch with square responds, and above it, a large round-arched opening.

Tower chamber has splayed corner with round-arched doorway, and west window with stained glass, 1900.

South aisle has to east a chamfered C13 piscina and square aumbry, and above them a stained-glass window, c1870.

To west, a segment-arched tomb recess with a male figure c1300, and above it, a stained-glass window c1889.

South-west and west windows have stained glass c1890.

North aisle has 2 windows flanking the porch with stained glass c1872, and north east window with stained glass, 1902.

FITTINGS: C19 round ashlar pulpit with alabaster dressings, chamfered square ashlar font with marble shafts, and brass eagle lectern.

MONUMENTS: numerous brasses, early C17 to early C19.

Restored painted stone inscribed tablet with scroll top and crest in oval cartouche, 1634.

Segment headed war memorial tablet, c1918.