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St Peter

St Peter

Winterborne Came

Dorset

C14, nave.

Architectural Features

Early C15, chancel rebuilt wider.

Later C15, west tower added and nave refenestrated.

C17, north porch added.

The north doorway, C14, has a two centred head and continuously moulded jambs.

North wall, early C15 window of two trefoiled lights with sunk spandrels in a square head, chamfered segmental pointed rear arch.

South wall, late C15 window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with pierced spandrels in a square head, moulded reveals.

West tower, late C15, of 2 stages with an embattled parapet.

Fittings: font, octagonal Ham stone bowl with chamfered underside, octagonal Portland stem on square base with spurs, probably C14.

Pulpit, oak, part octagonal with dentilled cornice and two heights of enriched arcaded panels, on upper panel on west the date and initials 1624 I.M., base C20.

Side bays with linen fold lower panels and open upper panels with C20 tracery, double doors, C16 reframed and largely reconstructed.

Communion rails: arcaded with turned and moulded pillars supporting enriched semi circular arches under a moulded capping, early C17.

North doorway: divided into vertical panels by moulded battens, rail studded with drop handle and strap hinges with fleur-de-lys ends, C17.

Monuments: chancel to John Meller, no date, and Anne his wife 1610/11, stone altar tomb with effigies, plates 12 and 20.

Altar tomb to Dorothy (Baylie) wife of Robert Miller, 1591 with cornice plinth, wall recess with fluted side pilasters and moulded arch, two brass plates with kneeling figures.