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St Peter

St Peter

South Hiendley

West Yorkshire

C15 but incorporating some Norman fabric

Architectural Features

large carved gargoyles at the corners and small ones in the centre

at west end, a C13 pointed lancet, and above this the line of a formerly lower roof.

1st bay has blocked Tudor-arched doorway with moulded surround and hoodmould with figured stops

Interior: 3-bay nave arcade, the south of C13 date

lower, the north rebuilt in C15 except for west respond which matches the south arcade but is carried up to the higher level on a stilt, both arcades of octagonal columns and double-chamfered 2-centred arches, but the north with more elaborately moulded caps

tower arch incorporates Norman responds of paired shafts with set-back flanking shafts, with rope-work rings to the shafts and decorated scalloped capitals- with highly decorated friezes. these are of unequal height, the northern being both 2 inches taller and set 4 inches higher, although they are stylistically a pair (possibly surviving elements of chancel arch of earlier church)

some re-used chevron-decorated Norman masonry in both walls of tower

nave and both aisles have roofs of moulded beams with block bosses, but south aisle has carved heads on 4 of the stone corbels

Font, within tower, a simple octagonal bowl on octagonal pedestal At west end of north aisle, a blocked lepers' window

to left of south door, a small semicircular stone with 3 concentric grooves (possibly relocated head of Norman window)

at west end of south aisle, a relocated bench with C16 inlay

various wall monuments in tower, including square tablet with fluted border commemorating Sarah, wife of John Carr of York aged 75.