Description

TL 65 NW STETCHWORTH CHURCH LANE
(North Side)

6/152 Parish Church
19.8.59 of St. Peter

II*

Parish church. Chancel C13, tower late C14 or early C15. Nave
arcades, north and south aisles and clerestorey C15. Nave and
aisles restored in 1894 and chancel 1907. Walls of flint and
pebble rubble with limestone and clunch dressings. Roofs of
slates and modern plain tiles. Tower of three stages with
clasping buttresses, moulded plinth band and belfry. Parapet
with flint flush work and corner pinnacles with finials. Two-
light belfry windows in two-centred arches. South aisle wall
projects at east and west end as buttresses, with one blocked
possibly C14 window. Four windows with cinquefoil lights in
flat arches, two round windows with quatrefoils. Two lancet
windows in south chancel wall with buttresses of two stages.
East window rebuilt. Interior. Nave arcade of four bays, piers
with embattled capitals, two-centred arches with hollow and
plain chamfers. Guild bracket on south side of pier in north
arcade, (also graffiti including woman with head-dress). Head
corbels reset in aisle walls. Very fine C15 niche in south
aisle with crocketed canopy on demi figure of angel. Nave roof
restored C19, has C15 carved wooden corbels to moulded tie beams
with carved spandrels to braces. Chancel roof C19. Organ C19
by Henry Jones, London. Font C16, octagonal bowl panelled with
carved head bosses to quatrefoils, supported on octagonal stem
with spurs to plinth. Monument in north aisle to Henry Gorges,
d.1674, Superintendent and Surveyor General of the draining of
the Bedford Level. Attributed to A. Storey (d. c.1696). Two
kneeling figures in white marble holding hands over two books
under open pediment, parents of Henry Gorges, whose white marble
effigy with wig and Roman costume lies on tomb chest below.
Monument to Ashton Benyon, d.1856, by E. Davis (b. 1813,
d.1878).
Pevsner, Buildings of England, p.460.
RCHM (Cambs. notes), 1951.
VCH Vol. VI, p.175.
Gunnis, Dictionary of British Sculptors, pp.122,374.
Maynard, Ms. Vol.IV, CRO.

Listing NGR: TL6424959028

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17543648

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