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St Peter

Newton Bromswold

Northamptonshire

Mid C13 to mid C14, restored 1879

Architectural Features

Regular coursed and squared coursed limestone with ashlar spire and lead and old plain tile roof

3-light window with 4-centred head and carved label stops to right

Shallow gabled roof with plain ashlar parapet and finial and central gargoyles in return walls

Castellated parapet with gargoyles at corners

Some original roof timbers in nave and north aisle with carved corbels

Octagonal font with Jacobean cover having crocketted angles

Perpendicular pulpit with panelled back

Stained glass: c.1410-1440 fragments in north aisle, north-east window depicting a Bishops head, and to 2 chancel windows

C19 east window probably by KeTipe, Monuments: William Hewet, Rector, died 1426 and Roger Hewet, Chaplain, died 1487, brass figures in floor of chancel

Bletsoe died 1710, inscription around earlier brass

Henry Lamb died 1727, inscribed tablet over pulpit.

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