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St Peter

St Peter

Cassington

Oxfordshire

Altered in early C14 for Lady Mantaate, who added upper stage and broach spire to the tower

Architectural Features

Early C14

early C12 round-arched window with roll-moulded inner arch and billeted sill to north

C15 three-light cinquefoil-headed window to south, which also has late C19 vestry with Gothic doorway and ogee-headed lights

3-stage central tower: early C11 stair-turret and round-headed doorway to north, and C15 three-light window with panel tracery to south

second stage has early C14 pointed-arched cinquefoiled light to south and similar trefoil-headed light with trefoiled head to north

upper stage has early C14 two-light Y-tracery belfry lights, and reset early C12 head corbels reset beneath quatrefoil-panelled parapet

Nave: north side has, from east, an early C14 curvilinear 2-light window, and 2 early C12 round-headed windows with billeted sills

gabled early C14 north porch has hood mould over chamfered doorway with imposts

mutilated early C12 south doorway, with plain tympanum, frames studded C17 door

South side has, from east, an early C14 Curvilinear 2-light window and an early C12 round-arched window with billeted sill

C17 studded door set in early C12 south doorway, which has roll-moulded cushion capitals

Gabled C15 south porch has open timber arcade of trefoiled lights to each side, and arch-braced common-rafter roof

Early C14 three-light Curvilinear west window with flowing tracery

Nave has fine early C12 corbel table, with similar variety of carved heads to those of chancel

Interior: chancel has early C12 quadripartite stone vault, supported on corner shafts with cushion capitals

Early C14 double piscina has reticulated tracery

Early C18 communion rail, with elaborately carved turned balusters

C17 panelled dados in sanctuary

C15 chancel screen has lower plank partition carved with blind tracery, and renewed top and cusped heads

Early C12 tower arches each have zig-zag carved hood over 2 orders of roll moulding set on jamb shafts with cushion capitals

Plain early C12 doorway to tower stairs

Nave has mid C19 pulpit with traceried panels, on early C12 tub font and 18 ancient benches, porbably C15, with bench ends of chamfered panels with central muntin

Two fine C18 brass chandeliers

Wall paintings: fragments survive on east chancel wall, and of C14 canopied figures at east end of nave

parts of C14 Doom painting over tower arch, and fragments of early C12 painted consecration crosses at west end of nave

Monuments: three C19 wall tablets

floor brass at east end of nave commemorates Roger Cheyne, d.1414, and has simple foliated cross

brass to Thomas Neal, d.1590, depicts shrouded figure

mid C18 Cosier monument on north wall of nave is set in architectural frame

similar monument to south, surmounted by urn and with winged cherub's head, commemorates Francis Seale, d.1720

Stained glass: east window of 1848

In chancel north window is C16 armorial glass and C16 Flemish rounder depicting Story of Joseph

East windows of nave have C14 roundels of head of Christ and 2 deacon saints to south and C16 Flemish glass to north

Late C19 west window has reset C16 to C18 Flemish glass. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp522-3

National Monuments Record