Church of St Peter

Details

ST 77 NW DODINGTON C.P. WAPLEY HILL (east side)

5/80 Church of St. Peter

G.V. II*

Parish church. C13, C15 top stage to tower, entrance to porch and other work, restored 1897 by C.E. Ponting. Coursed limestone rubble, tower of coursed sandstone and limestone rubble with limestone quoins, limestone freestone and dressings, stone tiled roof with raised coped verges, plain tiled chancel roof, cross finials to east of nave and chancel. Nave, chancel, south porch, south tower, south chancel chapel. Early English and Perpendicular styles. West elevation of nave has 3-light restored Perpendicular window with chamfered surround, blocked door with Tudor-arched head, hollow-chamfered surround and carved spandrels; north elevation has 3-light window with chamfered mullions and leaded lights, blocked door with pointed arched head and chamfered surround, small carved female head above; plinth, timber wall-plate, buttress to west; south elevation has window with leaded lights, chamfered surround and hood mould. Gabled porch has pointed arched door in surround of 2 hollow-chamfered orders, studded double door with stopped hood mould. 4-stage tower in banded sandstone rubble and limestone freestone, has small door and 2-light window above with trefoil heads, leaded lights and hood mould; 2nd stage has C20 window with hood mould; 3rd stage has pointed arched lancet with pierced stone tracery and hood mould, 4th stage has 3-light Perpendicular window, similar tracery in upper sections; embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles; polygonal stair turret to west of tower with lancets, brattished stone wall plate below pyramidal cap and finial; single quinquefoil headed light to each side of turret at 4th stage with pierced stone tracery; string courses and buttresses to south. Chancel has tall 2-light window with trefoil heads, leaded lights and hood mould, blocked priest's door with pointed arch and chamfered surround, and similar restored -light window. Chapel has 2 south windows of 2 lights, restored, with trefoil heads and hood moulds and restored Perpendicular 3-light east window with cusped tracery and stopped hood mould. Interior: 4-bay nave has common rafter roof, with arched- braces, principal arched-braces rising from corbels below brattished wall-plate, plain wall-plate at tower crossing, collars and moulded collar-purlin with bosses; north and south windows in deep splayed reveals west door blocked flush with wall, north door blocked with chamfered pointed segmental arch and pointed arch for former door; heavy door to porch with pointed arch and large horizontal fillets, chamfered segmental head to-inner arch; pointed arch to tower with inner east side rising from corbel, restored pointed chancel arch has jamb shafts with moulded capitals as imposts for inner arch, squint to north. Chancel has scissors truss roof, 2 north windows with pointed. segmental rere-arches, restored to west, plain recess for blocked priest's door; C15 arch to chapel has elaborate stone panelling on its soffit and pair of image brackets in its east jamb, smaller similar arch over C15 chest tomb of John Codrington, 1475, with enriched quatrefoils carved on panels round sides. Chapel has C15 corbel on east wall, carved as angel, to support an image, piscina in south wall, hollow-chamfered and moulded surround to east window. Arch between chapel and tower has Early English corbelled shafts and relieving arch, pointed segmental-headed rere-arch to south door and relieving arch, narrow studded door to stair turret with chamfered surround and tall relieving arch. Porch has 2-bay roof as in nave, stone benches with shaft base with broach stops to right, heavy studded door with strap hinges, chamfered pointed arch, compass pattern scratch marking on jamb of door to right. Fittings: Perpendicular octagonal bowl font with quatrefoils in nave; Stuart Royal Arms of 1666-89 in nave; coat of arms in carved wooden surround in nave. C17 carved wooden furnishings, including 2 sanctuary chairs in nave and chancel, 2 lecterns in chapel and nave, panelled chest in chancel, communion rail, holy table, panelled reredos incorporating shields of arms and panelling to north of chancel, pulpit in nave incorporating pieces of C17 carving including head of putto. Painted stone tablet in nave with skull and crossed bones, to Thomas Hooper, 1675; marble tablet in chancel to Richard Oseland, 1769, by S.T. Emmett. (Sources: Verey, D.: Buildings of England Gloucestershire : The Vale and the Forest of Dean. 1970).

Listing NGR: ST7138079725

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Sources

Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)

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