Church Of St Peter

BINTON

SP15SW CHURCH BANK 1931-1/3/14 (South side) 02/08/72 Church of St Peter

GV II

Church. 1875-6. By F Preedy. Snecked blue lias rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings; tile roof with cresting. PLAN: 2-bay chancel with transepts; 3-bay nave with south-west porch-tower. Offset buttresses and coped gables with crosses. EXTERIOR: chancel has east window of 3 stepped and cusped lancets on sill course, hoods with stops; 2-light north and south windows. North transept has north window of 3 cusped lancets, cusped east light; single-chamfered pointed west entrance. South transept has end stack; south window of 2 single-chamfered lights with cinquefoil over, small light to east over basement entrance, and pointed entrance to west. Nave has windows of 3 and 2 lights between buttresses, with Geometrical and intersecting tracery; 4-light west window with trefoil-headed light over and angle buttress to left. 3-stage tower has angle buttresses, string courses and top corbelled cornice with gargoyles and parapet with pierced tracery. Pointed south entrance arch with continuous moulding and east and west lancets, canted stair turret to east; second stage has cusped lancet to south and west; bell-stage has paired pointed bell-openings with stone louvres. INTERIOR: corbelled arch-braced collar roofs, richer to nave. Chancel has shafted east window and credence shelf with shouldered lintel; chancel arch on short corbelled piers; segmental-pointed transept arches die into jambs, south transept vestry and organ loft with trefoil-headed piscina to west. Nave has segmental-pointed tomb recesses to north and south, similar recess to west; porch has single-chamfered inner entrance with paired doors and segmental-pointed stair entrance to east; foundation stone to west. FITTINGS: simple stalls and altar rail; low stone wall supports open traceried chancel screen with rood; timber pulpit on stone base has trefoil arches over foliage panels; restored C15 font with c1640 wooden cover with ogival ribs supporting finial. MONUMENTS: tomb recesses have c1300 and c1320-30 coffin lids with crosses. STAINED GLASS: east window of 1876. 3 windows by Kempe and Tower: 1913 nave north-east window of Nativity incorporating C15 or early C16 shield of Greville Arms; 1909 nave south-west window of Baptism of Christ; 1915 west window commemorating Captain Scott's Antarctic expedition (Lady Scott was the Rector's daughter). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 96; Victoria County History: Warwickshire: Styles P: London: 1945-: 62).

Listing NGR: SP1457053990