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St Peter And St Paul

Steeple Aston

Oxfordshire

C13, C14 and C15

Architectural Features

C17 chancel, with moulded strings below windows and the crenellated parapet, has to south 3 Tudor-arched 2-light windows with cussing below the transoms, plus a small priest's door with a round-arched roll-moulded surround

Parallel north chapel, with a similar parapet, has a 3-light C14 east window with reticulated tracery, but is obscured on the north by the 2-storey C20 marlstone vestry

west window is C19 in C15 style South parapet breaks around tall porch and has fine gargoyles including a woman with pitchers

porch has an ashlar front with a canopied niche containing a C19 figure of St

C14 south door has continuous mouldings

Interior: chancel has a C19 Perpendicular-style roof rising from large well-carved heads which may be of 1684, and has a large continuosly-moulded C14 arch leading to the north chapel, which retains an unusual C14 piscina with a traceried triangular head

C13 chancel arch has clustered responds with moulded capitals

South aisle has an ogee-headed piscina and good C14/C15 head corbels

Fittings include an unusual font (possibly C12) with vigorous chevron decoration, a large number of carved traceried bench ends, some of which are medieval, and fine Arts and Crafts oak lectern inlaid with various woods and mother-of-pearl

C15 chancel screen has 2 tiers of open traceried panels and original ferramenta

North chapel has the late-C17 communion rails with heavy turned balusters

The fine brass chandelier is probably C18

Chancel, chapel and the east window of the south aisle have stained glass of c.1900 by C.E. Kempe, and there are a few C15 quarries in the north aisle

Monuments include a brass of 1522

a wall tablet to Daniel Greenwood (died 1673), and early-C18 wall monuments to the Marten family, with a cartouche of arms, and to Richard Duckworth, rector, with a broken segmental pediment enclosing a garlanded urn and with flanking consoles

In the north chapel is the notable monument of c.1730 by Scheemakers to Sir Francis and Lady Page, with 2 fine reclining effigies below an immense Baroque architectural composition

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