Church Of St Peter

SU 3852 HURSTBOURNE TARRANT CHURCH STREET, (North Side)

10/84 Church of St. Peter 20.12.60 GV I

Parish church. Late C12, C13, C15, and restoration of 1853. Transitional nave and aisles of 4 bays, Early English chancel (virtually rebuilt in C19), timber-framed tower set within the west end of the nave, south porch (1908). Low-pitched lead roof, tiled porch, shingled tower with broach spire. Walls of flint and rubble with stone dressings; lancets, coupled lancets, 2 Geometrical and 1 Perpendicular window, 2 C14 clear-story windows, some buttresses. Within, the pointed arcade rests on cylindrical columns, the font is C13 (with a C17 wood cover) the main frame of the tower incorporates parts of the screen, there are prescription boards above the chancel arch and a Royal Coat of Arms of George III attached to the tower-frame. There is a Jacobean pulpit, 2 old communion rails, an old south door, and several wall monuments. A most interesting feature is a set of medieval wall paintings in the north aisle, the chief having the subject of 'The three living and three dead'.

Listing NGR: SU3832153091