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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Fenstanton

Cambridgeshire

Parish church dating to the early to mid-C13, partially rebuilt in the mid-C14, C15

Architectural Features

MATERIALS: Barnack stone, pebble-rubble and clunch with pantile-clad roof covering to nave and north slope of chancel, and clay tiles to south slope.

The south porch has a C16 parapet

a two-centred arch to the doorway with a re-used C13 label enriched with dogtooth decoration.

Reset above the arch is a C13 'vesica' window.

INTERIOR: the north and south arcades, which were rebuilt in the C15, have moulded columns with four attached semi-octagonal shafts.

Two mid-C13 arches cut into the original fabric and into two original two-centred arched windows.

The C15 east tower arch has a hollow chamfer and wave moulding.

The chancel arch was rebuilt in the C15 on the C13 responds.

The mid-C14 sedilia is of three stepped bays with a piscina in the fourth bay, all with ogee cinquefoil heads.

The nave roof, possibly reconstructed, has four bays with cambered tie beams and king-posts, with carved stone corbels and carved wooden bosses at the main intersections.

The north and south aisle roofs, dating to the late C15 or early C16, have four bays with moulded timbers, hollow chamfered rafters and carved and moulded cornices.

There are carved bosses at the main intersections, and large carved angels under the intermediate principals.

The early C16 pulpit has linen-fold panels reframed in 1860, and the fixed pews were installed in the C19.

On the north wall of the chancel is the memorial to Lancelot Brown, Lord of the Manor 1768-1783, aged 67 years, and to his wife and two sons.

The monument is of Portland Whitbed stone and takes the form of a flat tomb-chest on steps with a back plate embellished with Gothic detailing and a crenellated top.