slavery & scalding - Pebworth Worcestershire
14c - 16c Church of St Peter, Pebworth Worcestershire - the village is named after Pebba, its Anglo-Saxon owner .
The present church replaced a 13c building and consists of a tower, 14c nave, south aisle, 16c south chapel , north porch and 15c chancel. All of which seems to have escaped much 19c restoration.
The two stage tower was begun in 14c and finished in 15c. with battlements. It houses 10 bells, a great number for a village church.
Restoration / rebuilding must have took place in 16c with new entrance door, north porch , tie beams over the nave , south chapel & some new windows recorded, including perhaps the unusual dormer windows in the nave roof .
There is a monument to Thomas Shekell & wife Hannah Hilton who were amply compensated as slave owners in Jamaica after the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2fH3G4 Another records Hannah's sister Esther's agony at the death of her small son after a scalding accident www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7348W6
slavery & scalding - Pebworth Worcestershire
14c - 16c Church of St Peter, Pebworth Worcestershire - the village is named after Pebba, its Anglo-Saxon owner .
The present church replaced a 13c building and consists of a tower, 14c nave, south aisle, 16c south chapel , north porch and 15c chancel. All of which seems to have escaped much 19c restoration.
The two stage tower was begun in 14c and finished in 15c. with battlements. It houses 10 bells, a great number for a village church.
Restoration / rebuilding must have took place in 16c with new entrance door, north porch , tie beams over the nave , south chapel & some new windows recorded, including perhaps the unusual dormer windows in the nave roof .
There is a monument to Thomas Shekell & wife Hannah Hilton who were amply compensated as slave owners in Jamaica after the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/2fH3G4 Another records Hannah's sister Esther's agony at the death of her small son after a scalding accident www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/7348W6