Saint Peter And Saint Paul

memorial chapel 1818

Memorial chapel, west door, nave parapets and some interior features by Jeffry Wyatville, c1815-1820.

Chancel and vestry, nave with clerestorey, north aisle, memorial chapel, south porch, west tower.

Ashlar and coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched plain tile roofs.

South side has a diagonal buttress to east, and a Tudor arched 3-light Perpendicular window with hood mould.

Memorial chapel, single bay, has plinth, crenellated parapet and gable.

Lower stages C13, with pointed arched west door in a projecting flat topped surround, c1816, by Wyatville.

Upper stage, dated 1638, has crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles topped with wind vanes incorporating the Brownlow crest.

Interior, rendered, has C14 chancel arch with round responds.

Stained glass 1847, by T Willement.

South window has heraldic stained glass, 1823, possibly by Willement.

Memorial chapel has Perpendicular style fan vaulting gabled niches in the corners, and an elaborate Decorated style cusped tomb recess and crest under the west window.

Traceried door, C15.

Above it, Royal arms, early C19, under a label mould.

Tower chamber has a stained glass west window, 1852.

Fittings include an octagonal stone font in Norman style, probably reworked C19.

Altered C17 octagonal oak pulpit with sounding board.

Memorials: an outstanding collection of sculptural and architectural monuments to the Brownlow and Cust families of Belton House.

These include demi-figures, mid C17, by Joshua Marshall to Richard Brownlow, and 1679, by William Stanton to Sir John and Lady Alicia Brownlow: monuments with sculpted figures, 1754 by Sir Henry Cheere to Viscount Tyrconnel