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St Peter

St Peter

Yaxley

Cambridgeshire

Original C13 cruciform plan altered c.1290-1300 by the addition of north and south chapels to the chancel, and widening of nave aisles

Architectural Features

circa 1330-40 east wall of chancel rebuilt or refaced and roofs of chapels altered

mid to late C15 west tower and spire

late C15 nave, clerestory and south porch.

south doorway c.1300, two-centred of four moulded orders

jambs with two free and one attached shafts with moulded caps and bases and C17 door

two eastern windows, C15 of three trefoiled lights in a four-centred head with moulded label, western window c.1300 with three graduated pointed lights with moulded label and mask stops.

gable parapet surmounted by three carved beats.

South transept, south window c.1350 of five trefoiled ogee lights with net-tracery in a two-centred head with moulded label and head stops.

South chapel, eastern window C14 of three trefoiled lights with flowing tracery in a two-centred head, western windows c.1300 each with three pointed lights with pierced spandrels in two-centred heads with moulded labels.

Chancel clerestory with three C14 windows each with two trefoiled ogee lights in a segmental head.

north aisle doorway c.1300 with two-centred arch.

stair turret doorway with chamfered jambs and four-centred head and C16 door.

North and south transept arches to the aisles C13 extended in the C15.

North and south chapels with corbelled C13 west archways.

Chancel arch c.1300 two-centred of two chamfered orders the inner springing from semi-octagonal moulded corbels, north wall C13 arcade of two bays with two-centred arches of two chamfered orders with moulded labels, central quatrefoil column with moulded cap and base

Chancel, north and south chapel roofs incorporate C14 timbers, and reused material and carved details in nave and transept roofs.

Font, octagonal bowl with plain sunk panels c.1300.

Six late C13 lockers

three niches C14.

in north chapel late C13, in south chapel C15 and C13, in north transept C13, in south transept C14.

Screen C15 of six bay with traces of painted decoration

pulpit hexagonal and dated 1631 with initials H.S., I.P,

R.E., C16 seating in north transept, stalls in chancel restored late C15.

For monuments and floor slabs see VCH and RCHM.