Church of St Peter

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SU 1868 2/24

HIGH STREET (west end) Church of St Peter

(Formerly listed as Church of St Peter and St Paul, CENTRE ISLAND, HIGH STREET)

18.7.49.

II* Mid or late C15. Ashlar. Nave and two aisles, north one with a canted west end, chancel, west tower, and porch. No clerestory. Aisle windows have three-light Perpendicular tracery, west window five-light Perpendicular tracery. Tower placed at west end of south aisle: three stages, crenellated parapet, octagonal turrets at corners capped by C18 pyramidal finials, windows in top stage with three-light Perpendicular tracery. Crenellated parapet to aisle and chancel roofs. Finials at east corners of chancel (probably C19). Doorway to porch with four-centred arch and square hood mould. Interior of porch tierceron vaulted.

Interior has tall Perpendicular arcade and C19 wooden. roof on stone angel corbels. Aisle roofs are also wooden, lean-to. Quadrant relieving arch abuts tower in south aisle. Chancel tierceron vaulted, and east wall rebuilt by T H Wyatt in 1862-3, giving it highly polychromed tiling in abstract patterns.

Good monuments, especially (in chancel) to three children of Sir Nicholas Hyde (1626), and to Marianne Maurice (1840) by Ternouth to designs of Chantrey. More Baroque tablets. Furnishings C19 replacing Georgian box pews. Cardinal Wolsey ordained priest here in 1498. Best church in Marlborough, remarkable for the vaulting and its site.

The Church of St Peter and St Paul forms a group Nos 42 to 64 (consec), and Nos 65 to 85 (consec), The Sun Public House and Nos 88 to 90 Consec.

Listing NGR: SU1855468692