Church Of St Peter

CARLTON CUM WILLINGHAM CHURCH ROAD TL 65 SW 5/48 Church of St Peter 22.11.67 GV II* Parish church. C12 origin, mainly C14-C15 and C19. Fieldstone with clunch dressings repaired in limestone. Slate and tiled roofs. Nave, chancel and south porch. West wall of nave rebuilt c.1885 with gabled bellcot. South wall has two C14 windows, restored, of two lights each with reticulated tracery and one with a square head. There are reused C12 shafts in the mullions of the windows. Later two stage buttressing. South porch, C17 much rebuilt. Timber framed and red brick. Chancel, C15. Two windows in south wall of three cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery. East window of similar period and of three cinquefoil lights in two centred arch. Interior: C15 chancel arch. Two centred and of two orders, continuous ogee outer order and wave moulded inner order on responds with half columns embattled capitals and high moulded base. Chancel arch, C15 now with part reused at west end of nave to form a vestry. C15 nave roof. Octagonal crown post with moulded capital and base and two-way bracing to collar purlin on tie beam with shallow arch bracing and pierced spandrel work. Embattled cornice to wall plate of nave roof. Font: C15 and pulpit early C17, on modern base.

Pevsner: Buildings of England p313 V.C.H: Cambs vol VI p156

Listing NGR: TL6418552967