St Peter

C12, C13, C14, Spire restored 1872.

3 stage C13 west tower, coursed rubble to the lower stages, ashlar above.

In the west wall of the north aisle is a single small lancet and in the north wall are 5 three light C14 windows with cusped ogee heads to the lights, mouchettes and quatrefoils in chamfered pointed surrounds.

Also a C13 doorway with hollow moulded head and engaged side shafts with annular capitals.

The north wall of the chancel contains 1½ bays of a blocked late C12 arcade with stiff leaf foliage to the round capitals and roll moulded arches.

Beyond to the east is a single C12 round headed window with roll moulded surround and head and above is a short section of reset contemporary corbel table.

In the chancel east wall are 3 round headed C12 windows with roll moulded surrounds and continuous hoods.

In the south wall of the chancel is a C14 2 light window with trefoil heads to the lights and a chamfered rectangular surround.

To the east is a C14 2 light window with C19 cusped Y-tracery.

To the south are 3 three light windows pointed chamfered C14 surrounds, now with C19 cusped flowing tracery.

Also a single C14 window of 3 lights in a rectangular surround with similar tracery.

At the west end of the aisle is cut a sundial dated 1688, 'The gift of Edmund Hutchinson, Gentleman'.

The inner door is C13 with side shafts, annular capitals and moulded head with floriate stops.

The 4 moulded and pointed western arches are C13, whilst the eastern arch is C12 with a moulded round head.

C13 tower arch with triple engaged shafted reveals and heavily moulded head.

C14 tie beam roofs to nave and chancel, moulded principals to the eastern section.

In the chancel are the finely carved rear arches of the C12 east windows with roll mouldings, annular capitals and human heads.

In the south wall is a C13 piscina having a cambered arched opening anda single shaft with a foliate capital.

In the north wall is a blocked C12 arch with moulded round head, Fittings: C19 carved panelling and reredos to chancel, brass altar rails and marble pulpit.

Tapering circular early C13 tub font with blank pointed arcades to the upper parts and a black letter inscription to the splayed plinth.

The cover looks modern, but the guide book dates it to the 18th century. The font itself dates from 1200, and stands now on a 15th century base inscribed with the opening lines of the Ave Maria. I was interested in the use of a salt-glazed pot for the flowers, as salt-glazed pottery would have been one of the major items of trade when the village was founded. The font lies between the South and North door. During a baptism both doors would have been open to allow original sin to exit via the North (devil's) door.

© Bob Harvey

Monuments: At the west end of the nave are 2 large redundant figures of a knight and his lady

apparently Sir Lambert de Trikyngham, d. 1280, and his wife.

Near the south door are 3 C14 tapering ledger slabs, one with a cross fleury.

On the east wall of the north aisle is a marble wall monument to William Fysher, d. 1674

In the south aisle is a small slate wall monument to Edward Dawson, d. 1787, a wreathed patera and swagged urn on a rectangular panel with rounded ends by Casswell, Sculptor.