St Peter's, Mancetter
St Peter's at Mancetter stands close to a former Roman settlement on Watling Street and possible site of Boudica's last stand. The church is a substantial medieval building with spacious nave and aisles and a long and well lit chancel, culminating in the church's best feature, an east window filled with fragments of medieval glass.
The ancient glass here belongs mainly to the 14th and century, though there are late 15th century canopies and other fragments as well as Victorian material mixed into the patchwork in the lower panels. Three figures in the central light belong to a Jesse Tree, popularly assumed to come from Merevale but the figures only match the glass there in date and subject, comparing the scale and treatment here suggest they come from a different source and thus are more likely to originate here instead.. The surrounding figures in quatrefoils however appear to originate from the east window of the north aisle in this church.
There is a fine 17th century memorial and an impressive font at the west end, along with an usually small and amusing 18th century royal arms.
The church is normally kept locked without keyholder information except for a few hours on Saturdays when it is open for visitors to see the new exhibition in the south aisle..
For more detail see it's entry on the Warwickshire Churches Site below:-
warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/mancetter---st-peter.html
St Peter's, Mancetter
St Peter's at Mancetter stands close to a former Roman settlement on Watling Street and possible site of Boudica's last stand. The church is a substantial medieval building with spacious nave and aisles and a long and well lit chancel, culminating in the church's best feature, an east window filled with fragments of medieval glass.
The ancient glass here belongs mainly to the 14th and century, though there are late 15th century canopies and other fragments as well as Victorian material mixed into the patchwork in the lower panels. Three figures in the central light belong to a Jesse Tree, popularly assumed to come from Merevale but the figures only match the glass there in date and subject, comparing the scale and treatment here suggest they come from a different source and thus are more likely to originate here instead.. The surrounding figures in quatrefoils however appear to originate from the east window of the north aisle in this church.
There is a fine 17th century memorial and an impressive font at the west end, along with an usually small and amusing 18th century royal arms.
The church is normally kept locked without keyholder information except for a few hours on Saturdays when it is open for visitors to see the new exhibition in the south aisle..
For more detail see it's entry on the Warwickshire Churches Site below:-
warwickshirechurches.weebly.com/mancetter---st-peter.html