Description

YAXLEY CHURCH STREET
TL 1691
20/176 Parish Church of St
Peter
13.12.57
GV I
Parish church. Original C13 cruciform plan altered c.1290-1300 by the
addition of north and south chapels to the chancel, and widening of nave
aisles; circa 1330-40 east wall of chancel rebuilt or refaced and roofs of
chapels altered; mid to late C15 west tower and spire; late C15 nave,
clerestory and south porch. Restoration 1906-10. Walls of roughly coursed
rubble limestone and Barnack stone ashlar. Roofs of lead. South elevation:
West tower of four stages with clasping buttresses and embattled parapet with
crocketed pinnacles at the angles and in the middle of each side; second
stage window with single loop-light, belfry window of two tiers of three
trefoiled lights in a four-centred head with moulded label. Crocketed
octagonal spire with flying buttresses to angles of the tower; two ranges of
spire lights of two and one trefoiled lights with gabled heads. Plain
parapets to nave, aisles transepts chancel and porch. Clerestory with four
windows each of three trefoiled lights in a four-centred head with moulded
label. South aisle; south doorway c.1300, two-centred of four moulded orders
and jambs with two free and one attached shafts with moulded caps and bases
and C17 door; two eastern windows, C15 of three trefoiled lights in a
four-centred head with moulded label, western window c.1300 with three
graduated pointed lights with moulded label and mask stops. South porch,
four-centred archway of two chamfered orders, the outer continuous, the inner
springing from attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases; above the
archway two niches enriched with crochets and finials; gable parapet
surmounted by three carved beats. South transept, south window c.1350 of five
trefoiled ogee lights with net-tracery in a two-centred head with moulded
label and head stops. South chapel, eastern window C14 of three trefoiled
lights with flowing tracery in a two-centred head, western windows c.1300 each
with three pointed lights with pierced spandrels in two-centred heads with
moulded labels. Chancel clerestory with three C14 windows each with two
trefoiled ogee lights in a segmental head. Interior: Nave arcades of four
bays with two-centred arches of two orders, the outer moulded and the inner
chamfered and springing from attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases,
shafts continued up to support roof principals; north aisle doorway c.1300
with two-centred arch. Tower arches two-centred of two orders, the outer
wave-moulded and continuous and the inner chamfered and springing from
attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases; west doorway with
four-centred head; stair turret doorway with chamfered jambs and four-centred
head and C16 door. North and south transept arches to the aisles C13 extended
in the C15. Rood loft door with linen fold panelling. North and south
chapels with corbelled C13 west archways. Chancel arch c.1300 two-centred of
two chamfered orders the inner springing from semi-octagonal moulded corbels,
north wall C13 arcade of two bays with two-centred arches of two chamfered
orders with moulded labels, central quatrefoil column with moulded cap and
base; south arcade of three bays with more elaborate mouldings. Chancel,
north and south chapel roofs incorporate C14 timbers, and reused material and
carved details in nave and transept roofs. Font, octagonal bowl with plain
sunk panels c.1300. Six late C13 lockers; three niches C14. Piscinae; in
north chapel late C13, in south chapel C15 and C13, in north transept C13, in
south transept C14. Sedilia in north chapel of three stepped bays. Screen
C15 of six bay with traces of painted decoration; pulpit hexagonal and dated
1631 with initials H.S., I.P, and R.E., C16 seating in north transept, stalls
in chancel restored late C15. For monuments and floor slabs see VCH and RCHM.

R.C.H.M. Huntingdonshire, p303
V.C.H. Huntingdonshire, p241
Pevsner: Buildings of England, p369 90

Listing NGR: TL1770091842

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17527929

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living