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St. Peter's Church - An Illustrated History
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In the north wall of the chancel are re-set two lancet windows and a low side window, also from the medieval building.

The pulpit is also of Jacobean date and was probably carved by the same person who carved the panelling.
The communion rails with turned balusters are from 17th century.

When, in the late 19th century, the church was re-built, they found the remains of a plain Norman doorway which the builders re-inserted into the south wall of the church. An arch of a later date was also found blocked up in the same wall, and which probably had been opened into a side chapel. The chancel arch of the fifteenth century was gone, and the chancel itself was blocked up with unsightly and inconvenient pews.

The architecture of the “new” church was of the style of English decorated, and consisted of tower, nave, north and south aisle, with an entrace porch on the north side. The roof was opened up, revealing the old beams which had been hidden in the flat roof of the old church.

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