St Peter Cassington

 

This week the Church Explorer Visits St Peter Cassington a church I did not think about visiting till I went to Yarnton. It has taken a few weeks to get around visiting but was well worth the effort. There is some history I found on Wikipedia :-

"Geoffrey de Clinton built the Church of England parish church of Saint Peter in the Norman style before 1123. In 1318 Lady Montacute, who was a major benefactor of the Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford, made Decorated Gothic additions to St Peter's: the west window of the nave, east window of the chancel, the broach spire and the upper part of the tower on which it rests. Fragments of Medieval wall painting from this period survive in the church, including a Doom over the Norman chancel arch.

St Peter's church tower has a ring of six bells. James Keene of Bedford, whose bell-foundries included one at Woodstock, cast the third bell in 1640 and the fourth bell in 1652. His son Richard Keene cast the treble and fifth bells in 1665 and the tenor bell in 1666. Mears and Stainbank of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry cast the second bell in 1953, the year of Elizabeth II's coronation. St Peter's is now part of the Benefice of Eynsham and Cassington"

I'd advise a coffee as the blog is quite long 

 

 St Peter as you walk up to the gate 

 

 The spire as you walk up to the church

Going around to the south west

West end

heading around to the south west

where you can see another porch

South side of the spire

The porch and nave end of the church. The porch door does not look it has been opened in a while

South east end of the church

Church from the north east side of the churchyard

 

Wide angle view of St Peter from the north

If you walk around the outside of the church you can see some rather nice old head stops

 

On your left as you walk in the church you can see some of the older headstones

 

 

Looking west it is a bit sparse on headstones

 

 

Back on the path to the church

 

 

Headstones other towards the south west of the churchyard

 

Looking east along the south side

 west on the south side

 

some of the more interesting headstones and tombs

 

 

Headstones near the south porch 

 Which all look to belong to the same family

 

At the west end of the church a gate takes you to a footpath which if you cross will bring you to a new graveyard

 

 

Back to the north porch

 

where you find the door in

This was taken from behind the font looking down the nave

 

You cannot help notice this impressive chandelier 

 

Last photos were taken with my iphone so I used my Canon EOS R6 for the nest few

 

Another view of the chandelier , there is another in the choir

 

The chancel arch with the doom and beyond that the choir and chancel

 

The doom is quite faded but then it was under plaster from the reformation 

 

above the arch s a doorway or window and beside the what looks like the remnants of a former roof

 

The choir which is under the spire

 

looking towards the chancel with the second chandelier 

 

The altar in the chancel which also has part of a wall painting over on the left

 

Looking back towards the nave

 

The pulpit

 

view down into the nave from the pulpit 

 

Over to the right of the chancel arch is this altar

 

Neat little waster display on it

 

behind is a cross and this memorial

 

Dated 1590 so has  now seen tow queen Elizabeth's in its time

 

Looking back through the nave

 

If you church the floor there are a number of tomb to be seen

 

You can also see quite a few memorials on the walls

 

The Roll of Honour listing the dead of two wars always something I look for

 

The font looks like it dates back to Norman times

 

behind is an area for the younger members of the parish

Beside that is what I think is a Hammond Organ 

 

Former window or holy water stoup 

You can see a lot of stained glass

most of which looks to have older inserts in it

List of benefactors to the church, I always wonder if the wishes are still carried out, like who get a weekly ration of bread

 

some of the  areas of medieval wall art that you can see

 

The nave looking from near the north door as you go in

floral display by the chancel screen

I will take my leave of you this week with a few of the church from the footpath a that runs past the church at the west end

Till next time have a wonderful weekend