St Peter & St Paul Checkendon Pt 2

Last week I left you with some views of the outside & churchyard of this wonderful church, today I will take you round the inside and show some of the details that set this church aside from many of the others I have visited St peter & St Paul even has it's own Wikipedia page

Back in the entrance porch and the doorway

This tomb is in the floor as you walk to the church door

above the  scoop for holy water

Inside you can see the church has been restored in Victorian times

In the chancel with the choir stalls

At this point my usual format went out the window as I forgot to take a photo of the altar with  the window so mesmerised by the wall paintings I saw in the apse

This shot was taken using my iPhone on panoramic

The picture of Christ above the central; window

Above looking back out of the chancel from near the altar. On the right a view of the nave with the pulpit on the right. I missed getting a photo of that as well

But I did go in the pulpit and get this view of the nave

On the left the church font with its cover. To the right the small church organ

 

View of the chancel arch looking to the altar

Going to the back were a screen and bell loft have been constructed at some time. with a wall memorial nearby on the right

This beautiful memorial is built in the blocked off north door of the church and carved though unfinished by Eric Kennington who restored a lot of the church

On the left you can make out the inscription at the base of the memorial.
This little fellow on the right is an imp who seems happy to be here

This beautiful memorial is at the front of the nave by the chancel arch

The memorial to to the Moon Brothers, one who fell and the other who survived the 1st World War

Memorial to Col Earnest Jones

This beautiful stained glass window is in the nave North wall above

This memorial to Earnest R Moon which I should have taken another photo of as the light was behind me

memorials you can see above the
pulpit

Memorials in the Chancel above the choir stalls

This one above is quite stunning showing A Husband & Wife facing each other. Th inscription is ver hard to read an at the moment I cannot tell you who it is but I did get a date of 1629 off the base. I may drop back in an get a photo of the inscription with my phone

Below what looks like their three girls, one is missing and a fourth possibly in bed sick

Memorial of Capt Thomas Fraser

The memorial at the bottom of the two above is that of Isaac George Manley (1755–1837 who was midshipman With Captain Cook on the first voyage of the Endeavour in 1768-71

On the left is the memorial to Rev Samuel Hamersley why is buried nearby in the church. The one on the right is to Rev John Coulson who is also buried nearby

This is another wonderful old memorial dated 1673

What I loved was the detail shown in it. The inscription is in Latin which I cannot read but dates again to 1671

The small cherubs looking out

Another with family  crest of Temple Stanley and his wife Grace

The angle on the base of the memorial

There was also some wonderful old church brass still in the floor

The right hand coat of arms is missing of this tile

This one of a lady is quite beautiful

above the inscription at the lady's feet

The one above is on the south side of the altar while the left hand ones were shown previous and are on the north side

A grated area, is it a baptismal ? on the right photo showing the roof of the church. Eric Kennington inspire the local people to carve the bosses in the roof.

One of the carved bosses

I noticed the date caved in thr roof beam

The church does have  lot of wonderful kneelers

all decorated on a similar theme

The font and cover

Which is lit by this wonderful modern stained glass window that represent sthe woods & countryside around

I went back for this memorial as it is to a Richard Blackall from Wallingford

Why did I want a photo? well there is a Blackhalls Farm in Cholsey which dates back to his time

The window above is deadicated to Eric Kennington who love the church

The eched glsss tooks beautiful and is very hard to get a good photo of

 It shows the deadication of the man who is buried nearby in the churchyard

 

Have a wonderful weekend

St Peter & St Paul Checkendon

This church is one of the Langtree Ministery which I have been visiting and I was  pleased to see how nice a church it was. I usually check the door is open and have a quick look inside if it is before getting my camera gear and this occasion was no different but I noticed the entrance door was Norman and inside had some wall paintings so I am going to do this blog in two parts with the internal views next week. St Peter & St Paul has it's own Wikipedia page so if you want to read a more in depth  history click the link above.
Some history from Wickipedia page on Checkendon
" The Church of England parish church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a 12th-century Norman building. All but one of the windows were replaced later in the Middle Ages with Decorated Gothic and Perpendicular Gothic ones, and the Perpendicular Gothic west tower is also a later addition. The building is Grade I listed. The church has an early 13th-century wall painting of Christ in Majesty above a procession of Apostles. The murals were faithfully repainted when they were rediscovered, but more recently this has been considered over-restoration. The bell tower has a ring of eight bells. Four were cast by Lester and Pack in 1765, two were cast in 1879 by Mears and Stainbank and two more cast by Mears and Stainbank were added in 1967. The turret clock is by Tucker of London, dated 1853. Saints Peter & Paul parish is now a member of The Langtree Team Ministry: a Church of England benefice that includes also the parishes of Ipsden, North Stoke, Stoke Row, Whitchurch-on-Thames and Woodcote. War artist Eric Kennington (1888–1960), who was churchwarden, is buried here."

Always nice to see a Lych gate leading to a churchyard.
FIrst view of the church shows it has an Apse on the Chancel

South side of the church

East end with Apse

Going around to the North side

and a north side view of the church

Above the bell tower and to the right a view of the East end and the Apse

On the right is a blocked North door to the church, quite common I have found. On the left is the porch on the South side which was built in the 15th Century hides the doorway below

The arch over the entrance door

Above the entrance door leading to St Peter & St Paul, you will have to wait till next week to see inside

The churchyard on the South side of the church beside the path

and around the West end near the tower

The War Graves of S.Bowles and W.A.B. Temple found in the churchyard

Couple of older headstones

The grave of Sir Nigel Broackes and his wife

Snowdrops & Ivy

These two war graves caught my eye, Stephen George Pullen and William George Pullen are no doubt related and I wonder if they were Father & Son

After reading up on the church I found that the war artist Eric Kennington was buried in the churchyard and had to go back a couple of times before I found his grave which I hand noticed and walked past twice. The memorial window dedicated to him is to the right

The back of the headstone is deadicated to his wife Katherine

Eric Henri Kennington

How long before this tomb in the corner has sunk and is forgotten

Broken cross off the base

Looking over at the east end of the churchyard

On the north side of the churchyard you can find an area that holds many Polish graves

Chest tomb on it's own

Fenced Chest Tomb

This time of year snowdrops abound in Churchyards

looking back to the church from the end of the churchyard

I will leave you for this week with a view of  the church from in the churchyard

Do have a wonderful weekend