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St Peter And St Paul

King's Sutton

Northamptonshire

C14 with C12 remains

Architectural Features

Exterior: North and south chancel walls late C12 with corbel table of carved heads

C15 north porch has parapet with ball finials, probably of c.1832 (datestone with illegible inscription). Large Decorated east window in south aisle, 5-lights, has tracery with a wheel and triangles

Early C15 tower of 3 stages

2-light bell openings with transoms and flowing tracery under square hoods, the end stops carved as figures with musical instruments

Straight parapet with blind quatrefoil tracery and gargoyles

C15 west porch with crocketed pinnacles and square gable with canoped niche containing a headless statue of Virgin and Child flanked by kneeling figures

Interior: Norman style blank arcading on north and south walls of chancel

C12 shafts, C19 arches with zig-zag mouldings

C19 piscinia and sedilia, but piscinia has re- used C12 mouldings

C14 chancel arch has hood with head stops and C19 responds

South arcade late C12, rebuilt and heightened C14 as indicated by tall proportions similar to C14 north arcade and use of ballflower moulding on one of the capitals

Retains C12 round piers with square abaci

C14 north arcade has quatrefoil piers with moulded capitals and double chamfered arches

Re-used C12 fragments at base of 2-piers, including part of scalloped capital

Panelled timber roof in nave c.1500, with carved and gilded bosses

C14 piscinia with cusped ogee arch and pinnacles in south aisle

Panelled timber roof in south aisle, c.1500, with carved bosses one with the letter "R". North aisle roof similar, also c.1500 has bosses with heraldic shields

Fittings: Romanesque font with roughly cut bowl

Pews c.1842 with carved poppy heads. (Architect for re-pewing was D.G. Squirhill, as recorded on wooden tablet in south aisle)

Wood panel carved with 3 pairs of figures in relief, c.1500, in north aisle

Wall monument in chancel to Thomas Langton Freke died 1769

Plaster relief of "The Resurrection" with two-thirds life size figures of Christ holding banner and angel trampling on a skeleton

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