Description

SOTBY PANTON ROAD TF 27 NW (south side) 6/40 Church of St. Peter 14.9.66 G.V. II*

Parish church. Early C12, C13, late C18, 1857 by Michael Drury. Greenstone rubble blocks, limestone ashlar dressings, some red brick patching, some render. Slate roofs with decorative ridge tiles, stone coped gables and eastern cross finial. Bell turret, nave, chancel. C18 nave restored in C19. West front with C19 round headed doorway with rectangular jambs, hood mould and plank door. Small C18 round headed window above with Y tracery. C19 bell turret with round headed opening containing bell, gable above with cross finial. North side of nave with plinth and single late C18 window with round head, Y tracery and red brick patched surround. 2 stage buttress to east. North side of chancel plain. East end of C13 chancel restored in C19, with single stage diagonal buttresses with C19 setoffs. C19 east window of 3 lancets, that in centre, taller, with continuous hood mould and 2 label stops. South side of chancel with C19 plate traceried window of 2 trefoil headed lights with quatrefoil above. South side of chancel with plinth and C18 round headed window with Y tracery. Interior north west wall with piscina in round headed niche. Early C12 chancel arch with round head with 2 rolls, large, moulded imposts with looped motif on west corners, rectangular western jambs, chamfered eastern head and jambs. North wall of chancel with tomb recess arch partially underground. Blocked aumbry above with pointed head, chamfered surround and bold inner cusping. South wall of chancel with double piscina under single pointed arch. Gravestone in chancel floor to John Porter, rector, died 1688.

Listing NGR: TF2043378867

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