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St Peter

St Peter

Stanton Prior

Somerset

Late C12 origin, mainly C15, early C17 repairs, upper stage of tower, late C18, extensive restoration of 1875, organ chamber 1897.

Architectural Features

Rubble brought to courses, freestone dressings, slate roofs with raised coped verges, crested clay ridge tiles.

Tower of 3 stages, first stage has diagonal buttresses, a canted stair turret in the return of tower and nave and a very small west door with a canted flat arch under a 2-light, chamfered mullion window dated 1634

At south, the nave has two 2-light windows under hoodmoulds flanking a blocked, moulded round headed door under a plaque dated 1627

Fittings: square font, C12, scraped

Monuments: in chancel

Counsell, 1671, slate tablet, frieze, apron, crest

Wadden, 1682, text in cartouche flanked by pilasters with momenti mori carrying entablature with crest, apron with putto