St. Peter, Newton Bromshold, Northamptonshire

Description

The church of St. Peter is a small but ancient building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, clerestoried nave, north aisle, south porch and an embattled western tower with spire containing 4 bells: in the south wall of the chancel are six sedilia, the easternmost enclosing a piscina: and there are brasses to William Hewet, rector, ob. 1426, and to Roger Hewet, chaplain, ob. 1487: a window in the north aisle retains a portion of ancient glass with the head of a mitred ecclesiastic, supposed to represent Archbishop Chicheley.

Church Records

The register of baptisms dates from the year 1563; burials, 1560; and marriages, 1556.