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St Peter

St Peter

Market Bosworth

Leicestershire

Exterior largely Decorated (early C14) but some earlier internal features.

Architectural Features

Plain parapet with gargoyles to cornice.

C13 tower arch, steep and narrow and deeply moulded.

Angel corbelheads to C15 roof with shallow cambered ties.

Monuments: in the north aisle a marble black and white sarcophagus wall tablet surmounted by a single column, commemorating Sir Wolstan Dixie d.1767.

In the chancel in a north window recess a reclininq female figure is the wife of John Dixie d.1846.

SK4003 : St Peter, Market Bosworth - Stained glass window

Stained glass: simple emblems in the clerestory.

SK4003 : St Peter, Market Bosworth - Stained glass window

© John Salmon

Stained glass saints in the windows above the chancel arch.

In the chancel east window undated glass by Kempe, darkly coloured, depicting the Annuniciation of the Birth of Christ in a landscape, with architectural niches and saints in towers above.

SK4003 : St Peter, Market Bosworth - Font

Font is an octagonal basin with ornate recessed traceried panels where traces of paint linger on the shields: four filletted shafts support it, probably C14.

SK4003 : St Peter, Market Bosworth - Font

© John Salmon

Wrought iron font cover of the C19.