Great Casterton, Rutland
Church of St Peter & St Paul, Great Casterton, Rutland. - There was probably a church here in the 11c as a priest is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Survey
The present 13c building developed from an earlier 12c church consisting of an aisleless nave, the eastern angles of which still exist. and a small chancel. To this early building a north aisle of 2 bays was added c1250, followed by a corresponding south aisle. Later in 13c the nave was then extended westward about 14 feet beyond the aisles, and a clerstory added to ts full length. The chancel was also rebuilt on its present plan and the porch added.
The completed nave at the end of the 13c terminated with a bell-cote over the west gable until in the 15c this was taken down and the tower built within the nave western bay reducing the nave to its present length. The walls of the chancel and porch were heightened, and the present battlemented parapets erected.
There is a ring of 5 bells by Henry Penn of Peterborough of 1718 who seem to have become unsafe and their clappers removed www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0592RC
William Hollis, by his 1868 will bequeathed £30 income from which in the form of bread and coal, paid annually on Christmas Day "unto and amongst the most deserving poor of the parish".
Susanna wife of Michael Woods by her 1818 will, gave £100 to apply the income as to three-fifths to be laid out in bread and given yearly in the church on St. Thomas's day to the poor, and the remaining two-fifths to be paid yearly on the same day to the choir of singers belonging to the church with a proviso that in case there shall be no singers the whole of the income to be laid out in bread www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/iaQV91 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Bq8i8x
Great Casterton, Rutland
Church of St Peter & St Paul, Great Casterton, Rutland. - There was probably a church here in the 11c as a priest is recorded in the 1086 Domesday Survey
The present 13c building developed from an earlier 12c church consisting of an aisleless nave, the eastern angles of which still exist. and a small chancel. To this early building a north aisle of 2 bays was added c1250, followed by a corresponding south aisle. Later in 13c the nave was then extended westward about 14 feet beyond the aisles, and a clerstory added to ts full length. The chancel was also rebuilt on its present plan and the porch added.
The completed nave at the end of the 13c terminated with a bell-cote over the west gable until in the 15c this was taken down and the tower built within the nave western bay reducing the nave to its present length. The walls of the chancel and porch were heightened, and the present battlemented parapets erected.
There is a ring of 5 bells by Henry Penn of Peterborough of 1718 who seem to have become unsafe and their clappers removed www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/0592RC
William Hollis, by his 1868 will bequeathed £30 income from which in the form of bread and coal, paid annually on Christmas Day "unto and amongst the most deserving poor of the parish".
Susanna wife of Michael Woods by her 1818 will, gave £100 to apply the income as to three-fifths to be laid out in bread and given yearly in the church on St. Thomas's day to the poor, and the remaining two-fifths to be paid yearly on the same day to the choir of singers belonging to the church with a proviso that in case there shall be no singers the whole of the income to be laid out in bread www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/iaQV91 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/Bq8i8x