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St Peter

St Peter

Chillingham

Northumberland

C13 with C16 alterations.

Architectural Features

Nave masonry C12.

Nave north wall has blocked Cl3 doorway and one C16, 2-light window with depressed heads to lights.

C12 south door in porch has one order of colonettes, block capitals and arch with roll-moulding.

South chapel has blocked lancet windows on return walls, tiny blocked C12 window and a re-set C12 door with round head and continuous roll-moulding on west wall.

2-light C14 windows with cusped Y- tracery to south and east.

Chancel, probably C13, has one small lancet on south wall.

Interior: low-pitched C16 nave roof with tie beams on large corbels and King posts.

Rustic monument to Robert Charnocke 1691, on north wall.

Canopied, enriched arcades hold 14 figures of saints

angels with shields between.

In centre of each side 2 larger angels support heraldic shields.

Reredos behind with angel holding shield between demi-angels with helmets.

Above a C17 addition with strapwork and a Royalist motto:- De bon vouloir servir le Roy Also in south chapel, C18 fireplace with Gothick detail.

NU0625 : Chillingham, St. Peter's Church: The font, 1670, brought from Ancroft 3

Small octagonal font dated 1670.

NU0625 : Chillingham, St. Peter's Church: The font, 1670, brought from Ancroft 3

© Michael Garlick

Jacobean pulpit.