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St Peter

St Peter

Broadmead

Bristol

BRISTOL ST5973 CASTLE PARK 901-1/40/184 (South side) 08/01/59 Church of St Peter II* Church.

Architectural Features

C12 lower tower, the rest C15.

Pennant rubble with limestone ashlar dressings to an open shell without roof or glass.

N aisle of 7 bays articulated by buttresses, with a deep plinth: small C15 four- and 2-light cinquefoil-headed windows with square heads in the E bay, an octagonal rood stair tower against the buttress of the second bay, and a large chamfered bullseye in the middle one

arched door in the W bay has shafts to polygonal moulded capitals within a continuous casement moulding with Tudor flowers, and an arch of sandstone voussoirs.

the belfry has a 2-light louvred window, a cornice with gargoyles on the corners and a crenellated parapet with crocketed pinnacles.

the C12 city wall runs under the W end of the present church.