Church Of St Peter And St Paul

SK 7634-7734 REDMILE JERICHO LANE (West side) Barkestone-le-Vale 46/301 Church of St Peter and St Paul 3.8.79

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Parish church. Mainly C14 with C15 alterations. West tower, nave, chancel, north aisle, and south aisle added and clerestory rebuilt in 1840 by William Parsons. Restored 1857. Ironstone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. 3 stage tower with diagonal buttresses. 3-light Perpendicular west window. String courses between storeys. Slit lights to ringing chamber and 2-light Perpendicular belfry windows. Crenellated limestone parapet with angle pinnacles. Plain octagonal spire. North aisle has 2 3-light Perpendicular windows under 4-centred arches and a similar east window. South aisle has 3-light Perpendicular windows of cast iron and an arched doorway. Chancel lit through 2-light arched windows. Interior. 3 bay arcade standing on compound piers: circular moulded bases and undercut capitals. South side is of 1840. Triple chamfered tower arch. Nave roof of tie beams on arched braces dropping on wall posts to corbels. King strut rises from ties to ridge piece forming triangular traceried openwork panels. Plain C13 drum font. C14 effigy in nave under ogeed wall arch with finial. C15 tower screen partly formed of doors from a chancel screen. Chancel roof as nave, but C19. 4 stall ends in chancel, with elaborate poppyheads and deeply undercut figures of saints and other carving: late C15.

Listing NGR: SK7777834938