Description

SP 05 SW; 8/2

ABBOTS MORTON CP,
ABBOTS MORTON

Church of St Peter

30.07.59

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Parish church. Late C12 with mid-C14; and early C15 extensions, restoration
of 1637, C19 and C20 repairs. Sandstone ashlar and lias with sandstone
ashlar dressings, machine tile roofs. West tower, nave, north transept,
chancel.

West tower: early C15, two stages, crenellated parapet, eroded
gargoyles to corners, corner pinnacles lost, diagonal buttresses, string
course; belfry stage: a window of two trefoiled lights under 2-centred
head with label; ground stage: west window of two trefoiled lights under
2-centred head. Nave: south wall C12, rest rebuilt early C15. South wall:
three bays, central early C15 timber-framed porch, mostly rendered with Tudor-
arch opening; south door: segmental 2-centred arch with moulded jambs; porch
flanked to left by single-light square-headed window in chamfered reveal, to
right a restored three trefoiled-light window under square head. North door
blocked has segmental 2-centred head, impost blocks, chamfered jambs; rest
of wall blind. North transept: mid-C14, north window: two trefoiled lights
under 2-centred head in chamfered reveal; east window: three trefoiled lights
under square head. Chancel: rebuilt to full width of nave mid-C14; two bays,
south wall: single-light square-headed window to left, to right window of
three cinquefoiled lights under square head, possibly early C16; priests'
door between has square head; north vestry late C19; east window: two ogee
trefoil-headed lights under 2-centred head, with inscription in leaded
letters above: "RL HE/ IH [IT] RE 1637".

INTERIOR: tower arch 2-centred of
two orders, continuously moulded with jambs; arch to north transept a Tudor
arch, late C19. Roofs: nave: early C15, three bays, trusses have lower collar
with solid angle braces and an upper collar; two tiers of purlins, some with
straight wind braces; divided from chancel by plastered truss with tie beam;
chancel: single bay, brattished wall plate over moulded stone string.
Fittings: C17 bobbin turned altar rails with contemporary communion table;
late C19 plain circular font in C12 style; two C15 wooden benches in porch.
Stained glass in north window of north chapel, C18 heraldic panel above two
C15 fragments; two pieces of late C16 Flemish glass in east window of chancel.

Listing NGR: SP0267554974

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530513

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Recommended Books

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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]