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St Peter

St Peter

Friesthorpe CP

Lincolnshire

C13, C14, C15, 1841 restoration and rebuilding by Young of Lincoln.

Architectural Features

The 3 stage C15 tower has a plinth, 2 string courses, pyramidal roof and angle buttresses.

The 2 light C15 west window has pointed head containing perpendicular panel tracery.

In the chancel north wall is a recut early C14 window of 2 cusped lights with trefoil in the head.

The east window is also early C14 recut of 3 cusped lights with 2 trefoils, a quatrefoil, single chamfered surround with hood mould.

The chancel arch is early C13 with keeled responds and double chamfered' with hood mould and human head labels.

Fittings are all C19 including the font, although there is the base for a medieval octagonal font in the tower.

Memorial window to the five Beechey brothers, sons of the long time rector of the church, who all lost their lives in the First World War.
The glass is by Andrew Seddon of the Stained Leaded Glass Company Ltd. and was installed in 2016.

There are two First World War memorial tablets fixed to the wall: one is to two soldiers, and the other is to the five sons of Reverend and Mrs Amy Beechey who saw eight sons go off to war and only three return.

Memorial window to the five Beechey brothers, sons of the long time rector of the church, who all lost their lives in the First World War. The glass is by Andrew Seddon of the Stained Leaded Glass Company Ltd. and was installed in 2016.

© Julian P Guffogg

Their memory is also recorded in a stained glass window installed in 2016.