Parish Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church located in Steeple Morden. The north and south nave arcades date from the late 13th century and feature a clerestory with quatrefoil lights, which are blocked by late 14th-century aisle roofs. The south porch was also constructed in the late 14th century. A collapse of the spire around 1625 damaged the chancel, which was subsequently rebuilt during restoration work by T.C. Hine of Nottingham between 1866 and 1869. A belfry and spire were added above the south porch around 1670 and were reconstructed in 1866. Some interior remodelling took place around 1903.

The church is built with walls of flint and pebble rubble, featuring clunch and freestone dressings, as well as clunch and limestone ashlar. The roofs are covered with plain tiles and lead, while the spire is clad in shingles. The south elevation includes gable parapets on the nave and chancel roofs, diagonal buttresses with three stages on the south aisle, and the south porch and chancel. There is a plain parapet on the south aisle and three large three-light windows with vertical tracery set in two-centred arches with moulded labels. The south doorway has a two-centred arch with moulded jambs, and there is a west doorway with a four-centred head and an original door leading to the first floor of the porch.

The south porch has two storeys and is topped by a timber-framed bell chamber and a broached spire with a louvred pent roof and spire lights. The doorway has been restored and features two chamfered orders of double ogee and wave mouldings. The chancel includes one two-light window in a two-centred arch. The font dates from the late 13th or early 14th century, and there are glass fragments in the south windows of the chancel. A brass indent in the nave features a purbeck slab with matrices for a knight and lady from around 1400, along with two purbeck slabs in the south porch.

Monuments within the church include a tablet in black and white marble on the north wall of the north aisle, which is surmounted by an urn dedicated to Rev Richard King M.A., who died in 1810, and an oval panel below it for his wife, who died in 1822.