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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Widmerpool

Nottinghamshire

C14, virtually rebuilt 1888-95.

Architectural Features

Plain tile and lead roofs.

Single stage angle buttressed embattled C14 tower.

SK6228 : Gargoyle on St. Peter's Church, Widmerpool

Single gargoyle to each side.

SK6228 : Gargoyle on St. Peter's Church, Widmerpool

© Carolyn Mansfield

To the right is a C14 arched 3 light window with flowing tracery.

4 two light C14 bell chamber openings with mouchettes under flat arches.

The chancel, embattled to the north and south with decorative band extending under has in the north wall 2 arched 2 light windows with cusped tracery, there is a single gargoyle.

Each niche contains a single figure.

Single carved grotesques at springing of gable.

The south wall with 2 gargoyles has 3 similar windows to those of the north chancel.

In the east wall is a Caernarvon arched doorway with single trefoil arched light to the left and single gargoyle.

The south wall has 3 similr lights and the west wall a single gargoyle.

The porch is embattled to the east and west with single gargoyles.

Over the finial and set into a crocketed niche is a single carved figure.

The wall decorated either side with blind tracery, extending under and flanking the base of the figure are single crocketed bands with inscription below.

Carved ashlar reredos.

Organ case decorated with opoen tracery and carved angels.

Open wooden traceried pulpit on ashlar base decorated with tracery and foliate.

Circular ashlar font decorated with quatrefoil panels and supported on colonnettes.

There is a memorial in the form of a sarcophagus to Catherine Allen, 1837, by Hall, Nottm.

In the westernmost bay of the north aisle is the marble memorial to Harriet Annie Robertson, 1891.

The decorative tomb is surmounted by a recumbant female figure in contemporary dress which falls over the side of the tomb, the head is supported on several pillows.

There are further C19 memorials and set on to a pedestal is a carved female bust.