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St Peter And St Paul

Birtsmorton

Worcestershire

C14, restored 1877.

Architectural Features

Stone rubble with tile roofs.

Between the second and third windows is a blocked door- way with Tudor-arched head.

The font is probably c1200 and has a round bowl on a base with chamfered plinth.

The bench ends incorporate some blind tracery carving.

In the upper lights of the windows are some fragments of late-medieval heraldic glass.

In the east wall of the south transept is a tablet carved with a shield of arms and date "1572".

The top has a matrix for a brass and the sides have panels carved with kneel- ing figures and with the remains of painting.

On the north side of the chancel is a large marble monument to Admiral William Caldwell, who died at Birtsmorton Court in 1718.

His semi-reclining effigy rests on a tomb chest carved with his flagship.

The reredos background is carved with 28 navigational instruments and is topped by flaming lamps and a cartouche with military trophies.