St Peter And St Paul

Two 4-light windows with Perpendicular tracery within casement-moulded Tudor-arched surrounds mouldings.

Clerestory to nave built by John Fortey c1445-1455.

Five large Tudor-arched lights with Perpendicular tracery along sides.

Hoods over windows with carved human and beasts' head stops.

Studded double north door with fillets within heavily moulded Tudor-arched surround with hollow-moulded hood with stops in the form of Kings' heads.

String below with projecting gargoyles and carved heads.

built 1460-1480 at same time as porch.

Four-light window with transom and Perpendicular-tracery with finely carved cusping, small quatrefoils and hood with head stops to south facing bay.

Eroded C17-early C18 monument right of porch.

Further seated figure under projecting elaborate crocketed canopy at centre above.

Parapet with hollow-moulded string decorated with finely carved bosses and angels.

2 bays of vaulting rising from engaged columns with carved capitals, with tiercerons and sculptured bosses and blind tracery.

Wall dividing south aisle from Lady Chapel thought to contain C12 masonry.

C20 plank door within C14 cusped doorway from chancel to vestry.

C15 five-bay roof to nave comprising braced moulded tie beam supported by wall posts in moulded stone corbels.

C15 lean-to roof to north aisle with intersecting moulded beams with gilded bosses.

Wall posts supported on corbels with carved faces.

Decorative carving to spandrels of brackets linking wall posts to principal rafter.

C20 two-bay roof to Lady Chapel, and north-east chapel with carved stone corbels designed to match that of nave and north-east chapel .

One corbel in the Lady Chapel bears the date 1489 in arabic numerals (possibly indicating the date of the building of the Lady Chapel).

Two-bay C15 roof with carved stone corbels to north-east chapel.

fine C15 goblet-shaped octagonal stone pulpit with fluted stem and enriched crocketed pinnacles attached to the easternmost column of the north nave arcade.

Late C14 font at west end of south aisle with octagonal bowl with carved heads supported by angels playing musical instruments, below the pedestal, demons defeated by baptism.

The ornate 14th-century octagonal font, adorned with intricately carved angels playing musical instruments beneath the bowl, stands as a focal point at the church's west end. A mirror placed below allows visitors to appreciate these detailed carvings without discomfort. The font symbolizes the church's rich medieval heritage.

© Lewis Clarke

C15 pillar piscina and aumbry in south wall.

C15 canopied sedilia in south wall of chancel.

Monuments and brasses

marble monument to the Rev Joseph Askew, former headmaster and chaplain of The Union Workhouse, died 1855, on south wall of south aisle.

Framed fragments of vestments some C16, on wall below.

Five C19 marble monuments in north aisle.

Unusually fine collection of 10 brasses associated with leading woolmen of the town dating from c1400 to 1628.

Brasses include an acrostic poem on the wall in the south-east corner of the Lady Chapel in which each line begins with the letters of the names Mawd Parker Thomas.

Mawd Thomas died 1584, Thomas Parker died 1628.

Brass in memory of John Fortey, who instigated most of the reconstruction of the church during C15, died 1458, moved to its present position under the second bay of the north arcade in 1961.

The remaining brasses are of similar quality depicting woolmen, their wives and children and including the symbols of their trade and illustrating the wealth of the town during the C15

C16 centuries.

On the east wall of the north- east chapel is the stone setting for a brass from which the figures has been lost.

fragments of C15 stained glass in windows of north and south aisles.

SP1114 : St Peter & St Paul, Northleach - Stained glass window

© John Salmon

C19 stained glass at west end of south aisle.