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Church
of St Peter's & St Mary's |
Saint Peter's Church - [micro-site]
Saint Mary's Church - [micro-site]
There are two churches in this town –
St. Peter’s and St. Mary’s.
St. Peter’s the mother church, is
a spacious building of stone, chiefly in
the Decorated style, with some Perpendicular
insertions and additions, and consists of
chancel, clerestoried nave of five bays,
aisles, vestry, north and south porches
and a western tower containing 6 bells,
the oldest of which is dated 1666, and a
clock, presented by the late Miss. Tombleson
and placed in the tower in November, 1852
at a cost of £120. The great feature
of this church is its celebrated tower,
a short, massive structure with very thick
walls, originally of three stages, and now
70 feet high and 18 feet square; the upper
portion of the tower is certainly Norman,
of early date, but the architectural construction
of the lower stages is so entirely different
from that above as to lead to the conclusion
that these remains are undoubtedly Saxon
work
......[entry
from Kelly's Trade Directory for 1900]
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