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St Peter

Architectural Features

Restored 1671 and 1686.

Slate and plain tile roofs.

Gargoyles early C20.

First stage has to south, C16 cusped head casement.

Moore Archt." West side has moulded door, C16, with overlight.

North side has C16 lancet and late C20 flat roofed addition in return angle.

Third stage has 4 re-used C16 double lancets.

Nave clerestory, C15, 3 bays, has moulded eaves and 3 gargoyles each side.

North aisle, C14

C15, 4 bays, has 3 buttresses, 2 setoffs.

Moulded eaves band with gargoyles.

West end has restored C15 double lancet with cusped heads, Decorated tracery and hood mould.

North side has to west, chamfered C13 doorway with hood mould and 3 C18 leaded casements with segmental heads.

South aisle, C15, 3 bays, has moulded eaves band with gargoyles, and buttress, 2 setoffs.

South side has to west, late C15 cusped double lancet with hood mould.

Above, a gargoyle.

Chancel, early C13, 3 bays, has on north side, 3 string courses and buttress, 4 setoffs, in western return angle.

To left, plaque inscribed "H * S 1671".

To right, chamfered lancet, C13, with remains of hood mould.

5 light lancet, late C14 style, with hood mould and mask stops.

To its left, restored C14 priest's door with roll moulding, and C19 Decorated double lancet.

South porch has pair of diagonal buttresses and C14 moulded doorway with filleted responds and hood mould.

Above, niche with figure, 1906.

Interior has 2 stone benches and C14 roof with moulded purlins.

C14 inner doorway has cove and roll moulding and billeted imposts.

C19 door with latch dated 1662.

Nave arcades, C14, 4 bays, have each 3 octagonal piers and responds, with octagonal bases and capitals.

Low pitched roof with arch braces, angel corbels and carved bosses, 1914.

North aisle has off-centre C14 roll moulded tomb recess with armorial tablet

mutilated figure of Sir John Babington, 1409.

East end has blocked window and C20 brass aumbry.

South aisle has on both sides 3 windows with stained glass, 1914 and 1927.

Lady Chapel has to east, window with stained glass, 1914.

Chancel arch, C14, double chamfered and rebated, with octagonal imposts and capitals.

To its right, stained glass shield in window.

South side has to east, C14 piscina

triple sedilia with ogee heads, removed 1686 and replaced 1903.

2 windows with stained glass 1911 and c.1920.

Fittings include C13 stoup on clustered shaft.

Octagonal basin and shaft with decorated faces dated 1663, from Bingham church

Font, 1662, with Gothic panelled octagonal stem and splayed bowl with strapwork.

Octagonal basin and shaft with decorated faces dated 1663, from Bingham church

© Richard Croft

Panelled oak pulpit with Classical decoration, 1778, restored 1907.

An Anglo-Saxon cross head in St.Peter's church, a reminder of the long history of Christianity here - there was a wooden cruciform church here as early as c700 AD

2 fragments of Anglo-Saxon cross with strapwork.

An Anglo-Saxon cross head in St.Peter's church, a reminder of the long history of Christianity here - there was a wooden cruciform church here as early as c700 AD

© Richard Croft

Brass eagle lectern, late C19.

Bells 1631, 1649, 1778, 1779 and 2 C19.

Carved, panelled oak chest, C18.

A memorial to Margaret Wilkinson, wife of the Rector John Wilkinson. She died in 1670.

Monuments include tablet with gabled head and finials to Margaret Wilkinson, 1670.

A memorial to Margaret Wilkinson, wife of the Rector John Wilkinson. She died in 1670.

© Julian P Guffogg

Slate tablet with Latin inscription to Gabriel Brunt, 1638.

Pilastered Classical tablet with angel corbel and cornice to Jane Brunts, 1659 and Robert Brunts, 1676.

Large painted alabaster monument with bracketed panelled aedicule containing kneeling figures.

Below relief panel with 6 child figures, and inscribed apron to John Hacker, 1620, and Margaret Hacker, 1627.

Royal Arms, C20.