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St Peter, Little Comberton, Worcestershire

Location
(52°4′57″N, 2°2′58″W)
Little Comberton
SO 967 427
pre-1974 traditional (England and Wales) Worcestershire
now Worcestershire
medieval Worcester
now Worcester
  • G. L. Pearson

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Description

Built of rubble masonry with some ashlar. 12thc. nave, later medieval S chapel, W tower and chancel. Romanesque sculpture is found in the N nave doorway, within a porch, in the W window of the N nave wall and on the piscina.

History

In 1086, Little Comberton was probably included with part of Great Comberton in the manor of Comberton, which was held by Gilbert Fitz Turold under the Abbot of Westminster's great manor of Pershore. The church is first mentioned in 1283, when the advowson was held by the lords of the manor.

Features

Exterior Features

Doorways

Windows

Furnishings

Piscinae/Pillar Piscinae

Comments/Opinions

Whorls are also found on the doorway of the Prior's house at Wenlock, Shropshire.

Bibliography
The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Worcestershire, vol.I. London 1901, 219; vol.IV, London 1924, 61-65, 63-64.
E. Keyser, A List of Norman Tympana and Lintels, London 1904, vol. 30, 10.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England. Worcestershire. Harmondsworth 1968, 16, 213.