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Saint Peter And Saint Paul

Weobley

Herefordshire

C13, incorporating some C12 fragments, partly rebuilt C14 with detached tower, tower attached in C15.

Architectural Features

Spire partly rebuilt in late C17 after a lightning strike.

Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings under a stone tile and tile roof.

Tower built in mid-C14 of five storeys, undivided externally, capped by an octagonal spire.

South aisle of C13 is of four bays, that to east carried up to form a C19 gable containing a rose window over two lancets.

To west of this, a C19 window of three stepped lancets, then the early C14 stone porch with a further C19 window to west of two trefoiled lights under a two-centred head.

The south porch, raised in the C16, has a two-centred outer arch of two chamfered orders.

The roof is low-pitched C16 painted timber construction.

The south door is re-set C12 with a semi-circular arch of two moulded orders, the inner continued down the jambs, the outer with chevron ornament resting on shafts (lost).

The moulded label is C13.

The C14 clerestory has four windows each of two cinquefoiled lights under a two-centred head.

The west wall has a 2-light C14 window over a pair of C13 lancets.

The north aisle is C15 incorporating the C14 north transept.

The east bay is gabled to the former transept with a C14 window of two trefoiled lights and a two-centred head with a moulded label.

To west of this a C15 window of four cinquefoiled lights with tracery in the two-centred head.

The west wall has a C15 window of three cinquefoiled ogee lights with tracery in the two-centred head.

The nave west wall was rebuilt in the early C14 and has a west door with a two- centred arch of four moulded orders, two with ball flower ornament continued down the jambs which also had a shaft with moulded capital.

Chancel built C13, the south wall of three bays, the outer two with three stepped lancets, the centre of two pointed lights under a two-centred head.

North wall has the central early C14 north vestry with C19 window flanked by two windows, each of two pointed lights under a two-centred head.

East window is C15, of five trefoiled lights with tracery in the two-centred head.

INTERIOR: the nave has five-bay arcades to both aisles of the early C14 with two-centred arches of two hollow-chamfered orders with moulded labels on octagonal columns.

The chancel arch is C14 and two-centred, of three sunken chamfered orders, the inner springing from from triple shafts.

At east end of north wall a memorial to Colonel John Birch, MP, died 1691.

In niche a standing figure of a man in armour holding a baton.

Set against north wall an altar tomb bearing an early C15 effigy of a man in armour.

In south wall a two-centred recess with label, a pair of mid-C15 effigies of a man in armour and a lady.

The C14 font has an octagonal bowl with traceried sides on a plain stem with a moulded base.