Parish Church Of St Peter And St Paul

TL 1718 KIMPTON CHURCH LANE (east side)

9/86 Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul 27.5.68

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Parish Church. Circa 1200 nave. C13 chancel. C15 S aisle and chapel,nave clerestorey and W tower. Restored 1861 and N aisle rebuilt. Rubble flint with stone dressings. Red brick to eaves. Nave has Westmoreland slate hipped roof and C18 wooden coved eaves. 3-stage W tower has clasped buttresses and tall moulded plinth. W door in deep surround. Battlemented. Needle spire. 2-storey octagonal stair turret on N. Fenestration is restored C15. N nave aisle has plate-traceried gabled windows. C15 crenellated Porch with polygonal stair turret. Interior has nave arcade of 6 bays in a Transitional/Early English style. Drum Piers with capitals alternately stiff leaf and scalloped. 2- light cusped clerestorey windows. C18 flat nave roof. S chancel aisle has tall C15 3-arch arcade with Piers of 4 shafts. Shallow canted C15 timber roof to S nave aisle, the tie beams on figured stone stops. Screen and stalls of chapel C15. Traces of C13 painting on jamb of lancet window next to E window of Chancel. Monument to Thomas Brand, twentieth Baron Dacre (d.1851) on N chancel wall: good Early English style tabernacle frame. Wall monument to Sir Jonathan Keate (d. 1700), S chancel chapel: marble plaque with entablature and fluted pilasters. Main E window: glass by Mayer of Munich c.1890. (Pevsner (1977)).

Listing NGR: TL1775818526