The Chancel

The High Altar and most of the furnishings were given at the 1891 restoration. At this time, new statues, executed in terracotta, of the Church's patrons, were placed in the original canopied niches.

The Blessed Virgin Mary is represented as the pattern of purity and humility, with the lily, the emblem of purity in her hand. St Peter holds the book and the key, symbols of the preacher and the ruler.

The east window was given by Mrs. Sherwin-Gregory in memory of her late husband who had died in 1869.

The church was desecrated at the time of the Reformation. The Rood figures and ‘all the imagies of papistrie’ were melted down in 1562 to repair the lead of the church roof. At the same time, all the vestments, books, vessels, crosses and other items of controversy were taken from the church or sold mostly for secular purposes.

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