Parish Church of St Peter, Benington

Heritage listing

Details Benington TL 2923 BENINGTON CHURCH GREEN (north side) 11/8 Parish Church of St Peter 24.11.66 GV I Parish church. Late C13 or early C14 nave and chancel, c1330 N chapel and S porch, early C15 W tower before roof raised for C15 clerestorey. Restored 1889 by John Oldrid Scott. (Kelly (1914) 52). Flint rubble with stone dressings. Steep old red tile roof to porch, chancel and similar roof, hipped at E, to N chapel. Parapet hides low pitched nave roof and embattled parapet to the Hertfordshire spike on the tower. A tall wide aisless nave lit by windows at 2 levels, with a rood stair at the NE corner, and covered by a 4-bay open timber roof. Cambered tie-beams, curved braces from wallposts on corbels, and carved heraldic bosses, painted. 2 early C14 2-light windows in N wall and S wall with tracery. Blocked C14 N door. Late C14 oak S door with contemporary pointed arch in square head. Large 2-light C15 clerestorey windows, 3 on each side. The lower windows have moulded rear arches with hoodmoulds and head stops. 3 carved stone brackets and piscina for former alter at SE. Mid C14 Barnack stone octagonal font with corbelled shafts on alternate faces and C15 stem with panelled sides and base. Fragments of medieval glass in nave windows and wall-painting of masonry pattern with flowers at W end. Simple C15 oak benches. Traceried oak screen of 1889 moved to tower arch in 1966. 3 inscribed brasses on wall at NE, C15 scroll, William Clarke 1591, and John Clarke 1604. Narrower chancel with E wall and roof, and much of S wall, rebuilt in 1889. 5-light E window of that date with stained glass by Burlison and Grylls c1896 (Pevsner). In S wall pre 1300 Sedilia with stiff-leaf and crocket capitals and cusped pointed arches. Piscina early C14 with ogee arch. 2 3-light C15 windows

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.