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St Peter

St Peter

Thorpe St. Peter

Lincolnshire

THORPE ST.PETER CHURCH LANE TF 46 SE (north side) 4/62 Church of St. Peter 3.2.67 G.V. I Parish church. c.1200, late C13, C14, C15, C16, restored C19.

Architectural Features

Mid C14 west tower with moulded plinth, moulded string courses defining the 3 stages

West end with early C15 pointed window with 3 flattened ogee headed lights, panel tracery and hood mould.

North side with early C14 pointed window with Y tracery.

C14 doorway to left with pointed head, continuous moulded surround, hood mould and plank door.

2 early C16 rectangular windows beyond, each with 3 cusped lights, panel tracery and hood moulds.

Beneath one of these windows are 2 medieval stone coffins, one with lid.

C14 human corbel set above.

Small early C14 piscina to left with pointed cusped head.

South side with 2 C14 rectangular windows each with 3 plain ogee headed lights and hood mould.

Gabled late C14 porch to left with pointed, double chamfered doorway with polygonal jambs and hood mould.

Inner doorway of c.1200 with pointed chamfered head, chamfered jambs with moulded imposts and plank door.

Late C13 pointed window to left of porch with Y tracery.

West end of south aisle with C15 pointed window with 3 ogee headed, cusped lights, panel tracery and hood mould.

C14 interior tower arch with pointed double chamfered head dying into rectangular jambs.

Mid C14 north

south arcades, with the single bays to the west being narrower, and the north-west respond of c.1300 with filleted triple roll.

C15 chancel screen with single light semi-circular headed divisions with ornate ogee arches over and slender buttresses.

Early C16 queen post roofs with multiple braces.

Gable of original nave roof line above tower arch with C18 hatchment.

Early C13 drum font with trefoil headed arcade supported on slender jambs with moulded capitals and fleur-de-lys in spandrels

C14 octagonal pedestal below.

Late C17 pulpit with recessed panelled pedestal, pulpit itself decorated with stylised dragons, plain brackets and moulded panels above with flanking fluted columns to each side, which support fretwork frieze with grotesque heads, thistles and berries