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St Peter

St Peter

Snailwell

Cambridgeshire

Nave wall possibly C11 with traces of original roof line in west wall.

Architectural Features

Early C13 chancel and south aisle, late C13 arcades to nave and north aisle.

Late C15 clerestorey and hammer-beam roof.

South porch with corner buttresses and rebuilt C13 outer arch has C15 glass re-set in side windows.

Nave of three bays with arcade of octagonal piers with moulded capitals and bases with wide two-centred arches of two chamfered orders inserted into the C11 nave wall, replacing earlier arcades.

A roundel with carved cross in spandrel above south arcade.

Six bayed hammer-beam nave roof with richly carved and moulded cornice, moulded principals and purlins and carved figures of bishops and priests to soffits of hammer beams.

Tower doorway C15.

Easter sepulchre in north wall C14 with quatrefoil panelled table tomb and ogee crocketed canopy.

C15 restored parclose screen to memorial chapel in north aisle.

Chancel screen C13, font octagonal bowl standing on single octagonal shaft with moulded cap and base.

C19 stained glass in all windows.

Monuments include one indented marble slab with cross and figure

Wall memorial in south aisle to Isaac Thornton 1669, black marble plaque with flanking pilasters and broken pediment, and black marble floor tablet at foot.

One of two in Cambridgeshire with a round Norman tower.