Church Of St Peter

SP 05 SW; 8/2

ABBOTS MORTON CP, ABBOTS MORTON

Church of St Peter

30.07.59

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Parish church. Late C12 with mid-C14; and early C15 extensions, restoration of 1637, C19 and C20 repairs. Sandstone ashlar and lias with sandstone ashlar dressings, machine tile roofs. West tower, nave, north transept, chancel.

West tower: early C15, two stages, crenellated parapet, eroded gargoyles to corners, corner pinnacles lost, diagonal buttresses, string course; belfry stage: a window of two trefoiled lights under 2-centred head with label; ground stage: west window of two trefoiled lights under 2-centred head. Nave: south wall C12, rest rebuilt early C15. South wall: three bays, central early C15 timber-framed porch, mostly rendered with Tudor- arch opening; south door: segmental 2-centred arch with moulded jambs; porch flanked to left by single-light square-headed window in chamfered reveal, to right a restored three trefoiled-light window under square head. North door blocked has segmental 2-centred head, impost blocks, chamfered jambs; rest of wall blind. North transept: mid-C14, north window: two trefoiled lights under 2-centred head in chamfered reveal; east window: three trefoiled lights under square head. Chancel: rebuilt to full width of nave mid-C14; two bays, south wall: single-light square-headed window to left, to right window of three cinquefoiled lights under square head, possibly early C16; priests' door between has square head; north vestry late C19; east window: two ogee trefoil-headed lights under 2-centred head, with inscription in leaded letters above: "RL HE/ IH [IT] RE 1637".

INTERIOR: tower arch 2-centred of two orders, continuously moulded with jambs; arch to north transept a Tudor arch, late C19. Roofs: nave: early C15, three bays, trusses have lower collar with solid angle braces and an upper collar; two tiers of purlins, some with straight wind braces; divided from chancel by plastered truss with tie beam; chancel: single bay, brattished wall plate over moulded stone string. Fittings: C17 bobbin turned altar rails with contemporary communion table; late C19 plain circular font in C12 style; two C15 wooden benches in porch. Stained glass in north window of north chapel, C18 heraldic panel above two C15 fragments; two pieces of late C16 Flemish glass in east window of chancel.

Listing NGR: SP0267554974