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St Peter

St Peter

Laneham

Nottinghamshire

C12, C13, C14, C15, restored 1891, porch restored 1932.

Architectural Features

C12 tower with C15 diagonal buttresses and battlements.

Above is an arched two-light Y traceried window and continuous hood mould with carved human head at the apex.

There is a small carved human head to the centre of the western opening.

To the left are two C14 three-light windows with reticulated tracery, cusping, hoodmoulds, label stops, and flat arches.

The east wall has a single-arched three-light C14 window with cusped tracery.

The chancel, heightened in the C15, has C12 herringbone masonry to the north west side.

There is in the north wall a chamfered pointed arched doorway and to the left a single C14 three-light window with cusped reticulated tracery under a flat arch with hood mould and label stops.

The south chancel has a single arched and cusped light with hoodmould to the left is a single C13 lancet and further left a single two-light window with single stone mullion under flat arch and with hoodmould and label stops.

The south nave with some C12 herringbone masonry has a single arched three-light window with tracery, cusping, hoodmould and label stops, that on the right being a human head.

The south porch was rebuilt in 1932 using some of the C14 timbers, timber framed with studded panels set on an ashlar plinth.

Tile roof with decorative bargeboard.

The inner arched and restored doorway, with reputedly C12 wooden door with long iron hinges and some scroll work, has an inner order of C12 roll moulding flanked by two slim colonnettes with late C12 waterleaf capitals supporting C12 arches decorated with zigzag on front and soffit and enriched with rosettes.

INTERIOR: early C13.

The low small part blocked round C12 tower arch now has a doorway with wooden door under flat arch.

The C12 chancel arch has an outer order of roll moulding supported on scalloped capitals and engaged columns, there is an inner arch with square edges which rests on imposts.

There is some C12 herringbone masonry to the south wall and the chancel.

Above the west doorway is a carved grotesque.

The C12 round ashlar font is decorated with tall arcades and set into the base of an arcade pier.

The panelled pulpit, inscribed "Soli Deo Honor Et Gloria" and the plain chamfered benches are C17.

There are two oak chests both with iron fittings, that in the nave is large and decorated with three rosettes, possibly C13, the second, in the vestry, is plain C16.

The base of the altar table, decorated around the edges with a scroll pattern, is C16.

The eastern most window of the south aisle has a fragment of C14 stained glass depicting the Virgin enthroned.

The nave roof is C17.

In the north aisle are two monuments.

In the chancel is a large, fine and elaborate restored alabaster monument to Ellis Markham and his son Jervase 1636.

Comprising two kneeling figures facing east and in early C17 garments.

The inscription is surrounded by carved garlands.