St. Peter's church, Rockland St. Peter
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St. Peter's church, Rockland St. Peter
Image: © Adrian S Pye Taken: 19 Feb 2010
The 13th c. tower is round with a stair turret leading up to the belfry stage, above which is an octagonal top. Just inside the nave, set in the wall, is half a stoup bowl, broken as a result of a fire in 1947 which gutted the church and destroyed almost everything in it. Consequently most of the furnishings and fittings are salvaged from other churches either redundant or unused. The screen, for example, is from Tottington St Andrew in the battle area and looks completely wrong here. The pulpit was from there too, but has been since reclaimed. At the time of writing the church has no pulpit. Because the original benches were burned, the seating is now individual chairs, giving the unfortunate appearance of a schoolroom. The large octagonal 14th c. font with quatrefoil tracery designs was undamaged in the fire.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.535123
Longitude
0.932665