NHER 10285 (Building record) - St Peter's Church, Lingwood

September 1962. Listed Grade I.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Parish church. Mainly 14th century, tower possibly earlier. Flint with limestone dressings. Slate roof over nave, chancel, south porch. Unbuttressed west tower with two-light bell openings with restored cusped tracery...Many stone-lined putlog holes in walls of nave and chancel. Collarless arch-braced nave roof with hollow chamfered principals and ridge. Ashlar pieces and wall posts with moulded cornice. Modern plastered ceiling in chancel. Wall painting depicting St. Christopher on north wall of nave. Plain octagonal font on eight pilasters and central stem. Blocked north doorway. 17th-century turned baluster communion rail. 15th-century benches in chancel with poppy-head ends and figure carving on arm rests. Ogee-headed piscina in south east corner of chancel."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
See also (S2).
P. Watkins (HES), 22 February 2022.

March 2004. Trial Trenching. Contexts 1-8.
Evaluation of site of proposed extension on north side church.
A small pit filled with crushed mortar was found, but contained no datable evidence. The pit appears to have had no direct relationship with the construction of the church.
Pieces of a large and highly decorated medieval armorial floor tile were recovered, depicting the arms of Morley impaling Despenser. The date of the tile is uncertain, the arms date to the 15th century.
See report (S3). The results of this work are also summarised in (S4).
An identical medieval armorial floor tile to that recovered during this evaluation was recorded at HER 8517 in 1995.
J. Allen (NLA), 15 March 2004. Amended by A. Beckham (HES), 2 February 2012.

This is one of the few churches that may have had altar rails before the 1640s.
See (S5).
E. Rose (NLA), 29 September 2005.