Description

HIGH STREET
1.
5407
(West End)
CENTRE ISLAND
Church of St Peter
and St Paul.
SU 1868 2/24
II*

18.7.49.

Mid or late C15. Ashlar. Nave and 2 aisles, north one with a canted west end,
chancel, west tower, and porch. No clerestory. Aisle windows have 3-light Perpendicular tracery, west window 5-light Perpendicular tracery. Tower placed at west end of south aisle: 3 stages, crenellated parapet, octagonal turrets at corners capped by Cl8 pyramidal finials, windows in top stage with 3-light Perpendicular tracery.
Crenellated parapet to aisle and chancel roofs. Finials at east corners of chancel (probably Cl9). Doorway to porch with 4-centred arch and square hood mould.
Interior of porch tierceron vaulted.
Interior has tall Perpendicular arcade and Cl9 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 3 children of Sir Nicholas Hyde (1626), and to Marianne Maurice (1840) by Ternouth to designs of Chantrey. More Baroque tablets. Furnishings Cl9 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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17539704

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990