Church Of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1955. A Medieval Parish church.
Church Of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- gilded-quoin-sedge
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1955
- Type
- Parish church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a medieval parish church, primarily built in the 14th century and restored in the 19th century. It features a west tower, a nave with a clerestory, a south aisle, and a chancel. The west tower is constructed of ashlar and consists of three stages, topped with an embattled parapet and a quatrefoil frieze. The bell chamber has tall traceried lights, and the west window is decorated with a hoodmould. The west bay of the south aisle is a 16th-century reconstruction in ashlar, with a fragment of the original masonry next to the tower. The south porch, dating from the 14th century, is also made of ashlar and includes a parapet and large gargoyles. Above the archway, there is a sundial, and the south doorway features corbel heads and a finely moulded shaft and arch. The aisle is built of coursed squared rubble and has renewed Decorated windows with stilted arches. The chancel has a priest's door on the south side, with a square-headed hoodmould that continues the string course. The east window, though a Victorian restoration, has four lights in the decorated style. The north wall of the nave contains a single 13th-century lancet, while all other windows are Victorian restorations in the Decorated style, with banded rubble masonry.
Inside, the nave has four bays and an early 13th-century arcade, featuring double chamfered round arches on low octagonal shafts with plain capitals; two of the shafts have large grotesque corbel heads supporting the outer chamfer, and the easternmost respond has a stiff leaf design. The roof and clerestory lights are Victorian. The tower arch is made of banded black and white masonry, and there is a blocked north door. The chancel screen is Victorian, and the heavily restored chancel contains good glass from 1898, along with an incised stone slab depicting a man, his wife, and their children from 1559. Above this, there are two alabaster shields. The organ is ornately painted and gilded.
The church also features various 18th-century wall monuments in the nave and aisle, including a large memorial to Rowland Roberts and his wife, who died in 1762, with inscriptions beneath a scrolly broken pediment and a shield of arms. The font, dating from the 13th century, has a round bowl on a round stem, formerly with shafts, and the bowl is decorated with incised arches and dogtooth carving.
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