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St Peters

St Peters

Fordham

Cambridgeshire

TL 6370 FORDHAM CHURCH STREET (south side) 12/97 Parish Church of St Peter's 19.8.59 I Parish church noted for its very fine late C13

Architectural Features

early C14 first floor chapel and undercroft serving also as a north porch entrance, restored in 1864.

Nave arcades, transitional late C12

early C13, survive from original church with re-used stone in south aisle wall.

North and south aisles rebuilt, early C14 with some Norman material and window in north aisle

tower late C14 with C15 embattlements.

Vestry and chancel C13 rebuilt in C15.

Aisle parapet embattled, three aisle windows with three cinquefoil lights and quartrefoil in spandrel, and one C15 or C16 window in east 'bay' similar to vestry window, both in four-centred arches.

Late C13 vestry door reset with shafted jambs, bell capitals and moulded bases, and deeply moulded two-centred arch.

Plain tile roof with gable parapets rebuilt in C19.

Church interior: Tower arch C15 with moulded outer and inner orders, chancel arch with attached half piers.

Nave roof of ten bays with carved bosses at tie beam intersections and at alternate bays.

Fine C15 roof to chancel, richly ornamented principal timbers and arch braced queen posts.

Carved angels in each bay and across each tie beam.

Restored C13 double piscenae and sidilia with deeply moulded two-centred arches and shafts with moulded capitals and bases.

C15 choir stalls with misericords.

Pews with angels etc carved as poppy heads.

Font C15 with lightly carved panels of blind arches.

Brass lecturn, 1881 copy of C15 lecturn at Isleham.

Pulpit 1918, limestone, with carved wood and brass balusters to stair.

Old glass in Lady chapel and in north aisle.

Brass to William Chesewright d. 1521 in south aisle.

Late C19 and modern glass by Heaton Butler and Co., Clayton and Bell, Hardman, Constable of Cambridge, and poets window by Mrs Dawson Waugh.