St. Peter, Clearwell, Gloucestershire
Description
The church of St. Peter, erected through the munificence of the late Dowager Countess of Dunraven, and consecrated April 5, 1866, is a building of local red sandstone, with Bath stone dressings, in the French Gothic style of the 13th century, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave of four bays, aisles, south porch, organ chamber and vestry on the north side, and a tower with a spire at the south-west angle containing a clock and 4 bells: the chancel has a credence table, sedilia, and richly ornamented reredos, the latter being a memorial to Capt. the Hon. Windham Henry Wyndham Quin, Grenadier Guards, who died 24th October, 1865, erected by his widow: the stained east window was placed to the memory of the same gentleman, by his mother, the late Dowager Countess of Dunraven: the pulpit is enriched with symbolical panels and medallion heads of Evangelists and Prophets, the ground work being exquisitely diapered: the font consists of an octagonal basin on a shaft of polished red granite: the church was re-roofed and the tower restored in 1913: there are 400 sittings.
Church Records
The parish register dates from the year 1830.