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Church of St Peter

A Grade I Listed Building in Camerton, Bath and North East Somerset

  • Church of St. Peter, Camerton, Somerset

  • St Peter: early c16 tower, embattled with set back buttresses; remainder mostly Victorian in Perpendicular style

  • St Peter: from the north-west; tower, north aisle with square headed windows & porch

  • St Peter: gabled north porch; square headed doorway, niche above

  • St Peter: mostly Victorian nave looking west through rood screen; Carew monuments in north chapel dated 1638

  • St Peter: monument to John Carew of Rifton in Stoodleigh, d.1637, & wife Elizabeth (Southcote of Bovey Tracy); erected 1640; kneeling children below, tapered pilasters

  • St Peter: John Carew, d.1637, & wife Elizabeth (Southcote)

  • St Peter: John Carew, d.1637; bearded figure with ruff

  • St Peter: Elizabeth (nee Southcote of Bovey Tracy), d.1633, wife of John Carew, d.1637

  • St Peter: shield from the monument to John Carew, d.1637

  • St Peter: monument to John Carew of Crowcombe, d.1683, & wife Dorothy Hippisley; standing angel at heads

  • St Peter: John Carew of Crowcombe, d.1683, & wife Dorothy Hippisley, d.1687

  • St Peter: inscription from the monument to John Carew of Crowcombe, d.1683

  • St Peter: shield from the monument to John Carew of Crowcombe, d.1683

  • St Peter: memorial to Thomas Carew, d.1719, & wife Elizabeth (Sanford of Nynehead)

  • St Peter: memorial to Elizabeth (Billing), d.1747, wife of John Carew, d.1750

  • St Peter: reclining c17 lady formerly in the churchyard

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Entry Name: Church of St Peter

Listing Date: 1 February 1956

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1129514

English Heritage Legacy ID: 32670

ID on this website: 101129514

Location: Wicklane, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, BA2

County: Bath and North East Somerset

Civil Parish: Camerton

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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