Description

BURTON PIDSEA CHURCH STREET TA 23 SE (east side) 8/25 Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul 16.12.66 I Church. Early C13 chancel, C14 or earlier nave, C14 south aisle, C15 tower. Chancel rebuilt in 1838. Cobbles with freestone dressings, graduated slate roofs. 3-stage west tower, 4-bay aisled nave (the tower occupying the west bay) and south porch; 2-bay chancel with south chapel and north vestry. West tower: moulded plinth, diagonal buttresses with offsets, chamfered strings between stages. Pointed 4-light west window. Pointed 2-light belfry openings with Perpendicular tracery. Crenellated parapet. Nave: moulded plinth, pinnacled buttresses with offsets. Pointed 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. South door: pointed with continuous mouldings. Square-headed frame with blank quatrefoils and mouchettes to spandrels. 2 square-headed 2-light windows to clerestory. Late C14 pointed north door with continuous wave moulding. Chancel: moulded plinth, buttresses with offsets. Two 3-light windows under 4-centred arches with Perpendicular tracery. Segmental-headed priests door (enlarged in early C19). South chancel chapel east window: pointed, 3-light with Curvilinear tracery. C19 east window of 3 lights with cusped intersecting Y-tracery under pointed arch. Re-set lancet to north vestry east wall with dogtooth under hood- mould with face-stops. Interior: pointed double-chamfered tower arch (the outer order stilted) on moulded capitals and chamfered responds. Similar arches to north and south walls of tower, within earlier nave arcades. These have pointed double-chamfered arches on hexagonal piers. Continuous hood-moulds to both sides, face-stops to south arcade. Pointed double- chamfered chancel arch with hood-mould on moulded capitals but without bases to responds. South chancel chapel arcade: pointed double-chamfered arches, octagonal pier, responds with grotesque mask to west, heraldic shield to east. Trefoil-headed niche over stoup to south aisle east end. C13 octagonal font: chamfered column with bar- and face-stops.

Listing NGR: TA2519631102

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