St Peter

early C16 fabric, evidence of considerable rebuilding.

5-light square-headed Perpendicular granite window to south side of chancel has probably C16 jambs and 2 C16 mullions.

3-bay unbuttressed north aisle has 3-light circa late C15 Perpendicular granite east window with hoodmould and label stops, east wall partially rebuilt.

3-light circa late C15 west window to aisle has hoodmould.

Small octagonal font with deep bowl on octagonal stem and base is probably early C16.

Some early C16 rectangular bench ends, and 1 frontal attached to C19 benches have carvings which include a profile head in a medallion, symbols of the Passion and St Michael weighing souls while vanquishing a dragon.

Some C16 bench ends in the north chancel chapel include 1 with fleur de lys cresting, other carved bench ends date from the late C19.

Clergy stalls in the chancel were reconstructed in 1904-5, incorporating early C16 panels of arabesques and profile heads in medallions, flamboyant blind tracery (probably not of English origin) and some good poppyheads.

The church is dominated by the rood screen, complete with gallery, tabernacle work and cresting.

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The medieval screen was broken up in 1883 by Baring-Goulds' grandfather, but enough fragments were rescued by Baring-Gould to make an accurate reconstruction possible.

The present screen is fine but shows little evidence of medieval work.

The pier of the aisle which projects through the screen is encased in carving.

The medieval doorways to the loft are blocked, the lower doorway is chamfered with an ogival head.

Late C19/early C20 drum pulpit on a wine glass stem, modelled on the reconstructed medieval pulpit at Kenton, carved by the Pinwill sisters.

Pulpit has nodding ogees above paintings of the evangelists.

Early C20 parclose screen on a C16 model.

Circa C16 timber eagle lectern originating from Brittany.

Late C15/early C16 North Flemish triptych, probably by Cornelius Engelbert the centre panel of the entombment copied from Quentin Metsys' triptych in Antwerp, the side panels depicting the carrying of the cross and the Ascension.

On the north wall of the aisle are numerous C17 slate and brass memorials commemorating members of the Baring-Gould family.

1 brass memorial commemorating Margaret Baring- Gould, died 1662, includes the witty epitaph: "Death dartes at all, spares not a Margaret/Although a pearle in Gould most neatly set/".

Slate memorials against the exterior south wall and one fixed above the porch doorway may also have been introduced from Staverton.

The south window of the chancel is filled with late C19 glass and incorporates 4 circa early C16 evangelists' heads and an Agnus Dei.

The east window in a C16 style, said to be by Carl de Bouche of Munich, was erected in 1914.