Parish Church Of St Peter

SY 78 NW WINTERBORNE CAME

6/105 Parish Church of St Peter 26.1.56 I GV

Parish Church. C14, nave. Early C15, chancel rebuilt wider. Later C15, west tower added and nave refenestrated. C17, north porch added. Rubble stone walls with freestone dressings. Slate roofs with stone gable copings. Nave, north wall has a 3 light window of cinquefoiled lights, with pierced spandrels in a square head, with moulded reveals. The north doorway, C14, has a two centred head and continuously moulded jambs. Further west is a C20 blocking. The south wall has two windows, eastern similar to that opposite, western has head replaced by a flat lintel. South doorway now blocked, has a segmental pointed head and continuously moulded jambs. Chancel is structurally undivided from the nave. 3 light east window is C20. North wall, early C15 window of two trefoiled lights with sunk spandrels in a square head, chamfered segmental pointed rear arch. South wall, late C15 window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with pierced spandrels in a square head, moulded reveals. West tower, late C15, of 2 stages with an embattled parapet. West window, partly restored, of 3 cinquefoiled lights with vertical tracery in a pointed head, moulded reveals and label. On the north side is a C19 porch for the access of bellringers. The bell chamber has in each wall, a window of one square headed light. Fittings: font, octagonal Ham stone bowl with chamfered underside, octagonal Portland stem on square base with spurs, probably C14. Pulpit, oak, part octagonal with dentilled cornice and two heights of enriched arcaded panels, on upper panel on west the date and initials 1624 I.M., base C20. Screen: between chancel and nave, with central doorway and seven bays on either side, moulded cornice with vine ornament and restored painted inscription 'Let us hear the conclusion of all things, fear God and keep his commandments for that forcheth all man for God Judgeth all things'. Side bays with linen fold lower panels and open upper panels with C20 tracery, double doors, C16 reframed and largely reconstructed. Communion rails: arcaded with turned and moulded pillars supporting enriched semi circular arches under a moulded capping, early C17. North doorway: divided into vertical panels by moulded battens, rail studded with drop handle and strap hinges with fleur-de-lys ends, C17. Monuments: chancel to John Meller, no date, and Anne his wife 1610/11, stone altar tomb with effigies, plates 12 and 20. Wall at back, tablet with achievement of arms of Miller impaling. Altar tomb to Dorothy (Baylie) wife of Robert Miller, 1591 with cornice plinth, wall recess with fluted side pilasters and moulded arch, two brass plates with kneeling figures. C19 stone tablets in chancel and nave, especially that on east wall to Hon Lionel Damer, sone of first earl of Dorchester, 1807, signed J Browne, London, 1839. (R.C.H.M. Dorset II, P.383 (1)).

Listing NGR: SY7047388398