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St Peter

Wootton Wawen CP

Warwickshire

With enlargements late C11/early C12 to nave and chancel of which parts of the walls remain

Architectural Features

C13 south aisle and south doorway

C14 Lady Chapel and chancel north windows

late C15 clerestory, upper stage of tower, north doorway and east window

early C16 north porch

early C17 enlargement of chancel and chancel roof

south aisle windows inserted c1635 though of C16 date

MATERIALS: lias stone with plain-tile roofs

STYLE: Saxon

Norman

Continuous chamfered band with gargoyles

Lady chapel: 2 3-light windows with reticulated tracery to head, the easternmost blocked to inside by monument, to east end a window of 5 stepped ogee-headed lights with Curvilinear tracery to head

Large busts reputedly of King Edward III and Queen Philippa to west window as hoodmould stops, window has stained glass of 1905

To east end of nave are 2 parclose screens mid C15, one across tower opening has ogee-headed arch, otherwise once enclosing side chapels, now with choir stalls and organ console

Perpendicular oak pulpit with leaf-traceried panels

Octagonal C14 font with 8 protruding hooded stone heads on the underside

another similar arch to south now with glass doors

to north wall of Chapel a similar arch over the Norman tower arch

C14 rib-vaulted piscina in ornate surround, unfinished

C17 3-bay king-post roof

stained glass to east window is C14 and C17

small wooden doors conceal carved C15 hagioscope

C16 pews with carved bench ends with stunted poppy heads and coarse tracery, restored C19

MONUMENTS: in chancel are 2 tomb chests, one with recumbent alabaster effigy to John Harewell (d.1428)

the other with quatrefoil decoration, also to John Harewell (d.1505), has dark marble top with brasses of John and wife Anna, 10 children shown below

In Lady Chapel is C17 Renaissance-style canopied altar tomb in painted marble erected 1626 with Ionic columns to each side and recumbent effigy of Francis Smith (d.1605), Lord of the Manor of Wootton, and Agnes (d.1562) his wife

Monument

free-standing urn on pedestal to Robert Knight (d.1744). Wall monument to William Somerville of Edstone (d.1676) and his daughters Catherina (d.1736) and Margaretta (d.1739)

Architectural type wall monument to Henry Knight (d.1762), Henrietta Knight (d.1763) and Henrietta St

John, Lady Luxemborough (d.1756). Gothic-Revival wall monument to John Phillips of Edstone (d.1836) signed John Ternmouth, Pimlico

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