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Saint Peter And All Saints

Battlesden

Bedfordshire

C13 origins, reworked C14 and C15, with C16 and C17 details

Architectural Features

Clay tile roofs

Chancel: C14 origins

S elevation has 2 C16 square-headed 2-light windows and a small 4-centred arched doorway, Plain stone-coped parapet

C14 pointed chancel arch

Nave: late C13 origins

N elevation has C13 lancet to W, 2-light square-headed C15 window, and C17 square-headed window of 3-lights with transom

C14 doorway

S elevation has 2-light C13 window to W, C16 square-headed 2-light window (high in wall, formerly lighting a gallery), and C15 2-light square-headed window

Blocked C14 pointed arched doorway

Tower:C15, inserted into SW angle of existing nave

C15 moulded roof to nave, C19 chancel roof

C12 circular font has 4 different pieces of foliate carving

Marble wall monuments in nave

One to Lady Elizabeth Duncombe, probably later C17, with cartouche in ornate surround, the putti to base probably C19

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