Church Of St Peter

DORSINGTON

SP14NW VILLAGE STREET 1931-1/5/41 (East side) 05/04/67 Church of St Peter

GV II*

Church. 1754-8, probably on earlier foundations, with c1870 restorations and chancel. Brick laid to Flemish bond on coursed blue lias rubble plinth, with ashlar dressings; steeply pitched renewed graduated stone slate roofs. PLAN: 2-bay nave, small square chancel and west tower. EXTERIOR: flush quoins and coped gables. Chancel has coped gable with cross, east window with Y tracery, single-chamfered light to north and 2-light straight-headed south window. Nave has modillioned brick cornice; 2 windows of 2 single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights, probably 1870s. 3-stage tower has 2 string courses and plain stone-coped brick parapet with plain stone pinnacles; west entrance has plain moulded ashlar arch to plank door; top stage has blind segmental-headed windows with inset lights. INTERIOR: 4-bay roof has king post trusses with braces and iron straps; double-chamfered chancel arch with corbels, chancel roof has stop-chamfered members and boarding. FITTINGS: mostly 1870s, chancel has enriched panelling and altar rail on arched supports, plain pews with blind tracery to ends; pulpit, possibly reconstructed, has early C17 enriched round-arched panels and late C17 foliate panels, top cornice with egg-and-dart; prayer desk has similar cornice and linen-fold panels; octagonal Perpendicular font is plain with rich string course and cornice on mid C17 base with faceted panels, some C17 graffiti; painted 1870s charity panel. STAINED GLASS: some C19 and C20 glass; good C19 east window. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 286).

Listing NGR: SP1325449708