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Church of St Peter

A Grade II* Listed Building in Thornbury, Devon

  • St Peter: nave with c15 north arcade of wide arches; Decorated style east window, chancel & chancel arch are part of Victorian restoration of 1876

  • St Peter: unbuttressed west tower with obelisk pinnacles; Perpendicular north chancel chapel to the left

  • St Peter: village church mostly Perpendicular with some Norman origins; early c16 mullion windows

  • St Peter: mutilated alabaster monument probably to John Speccot of Thornbury, d.1641, wife Elizabeth (Walter) & children

  • St Peter: probably John Speccot, d.1641, & wife; recumbent effigies with daughters at their heads

  • St Peter: probably John Speccot of Thornbury, d.1641

  • St Peter: probably Elizabeth Edgecumbe of Mount & Cotehele, wife of John Speccot of Thornbury, d.1641

  • St Peter: sons from the monument to John Speccot of Thornbury, d.1641

  • St Peter: likely parents from the monument to John Speccot, d.1641

  • St Peter: shield from the monument to John Speccot, d.1641; quartered arms of Edgecumbe

  • St Peter: shield from the monument to John Speccot, d.1641; Specott impaling Walter

  • St Peter: memorial slab to William Hammond, rector, d.1681, & wife Elizabeth

  • St Peter: memorial to John Maynard, d.1694, as an infant & his sister Margaret, d.1706, aged eighteen

  • St Peter: memorial to John Johns, d.1715, with winged angel's head below

  • St Peter: memorial to John Edgecumbe, rector, d.1838 aged 59, his wife Jane, d.1849 aged 56, & his son William (also rector), d.1889 aged 73

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Entry Name: Church of St Peter

Listing Date: 14 February 1958

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1162910

English Heritage Legacy ID: 91615

ID on this website: 101162910

Location: St Peter's Church, Thornbury, Torridge, Devon, EX22

County: Devon

District: Torridge

Civil Parish: Thornbury

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Thornbury St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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