East Bridgford St Peter

Features and Fittings

Chancel

Altar

Altar Sketch of central block
of altar top

Altar dates from the 1903-14 restoration. The top is formed of three blocks of stone; the central block is part of a medieval altar slab on which two crosses have been inscribed. It was found under the chancel floor during the restoration of the church in the early years of the twentieth century.

Altar cross

Wood, twentieth century.

Altar rail

Plain wood, twentieth century.

Armchair

Wood, twentieth century.

Bier lights

Two with turned wood shafts, twentieth century.

Candlesticks

Two small standing ones, two altar ones, of turned wood, twentieth century.

Stools

Two of wood, date uncertain.

Candle extinguisher

Brass cone with rolled edge and patée cross finial.

Sedilia in range with piscina

Sedilia in chancel
with piscina beside		 The (former) piscina,
now a book niche

Fourteenth century with ogee heads, cylindrical shafts separating three seats and piscina. Pieces of the sedilia and piscina were discovered by the Rev Arthur Du Boulay Hill in his garden and other fragments were found during the rebuilding of the chancel. The sedilia and piscina were restored in 1903.

Aumbry

Fourteenth century.

Benches

Benches in the
south choir		 Poppyhead

Two rows to the north and the south sides. Both front rows with integral kneelers, bookrests and poppy heads, circa nineteenth/twentieth centuries.

Clerk’s desk

One to north and one to south with armchair circa nineteenth/ twentieth centuries.

Bible

Full leather binding, printed and published 1813 by J Gleave, 196 Deansgate, Manchester.

Nave

Pulpit

Pulpit

Late eighteenth century with hexagonal drum, each facet having two shallow sunk panels, on hexagonal stem on a hexagonal plinth.

A small brass plaque on the pulpit reads:

THIS PULPIT WAS RESTORED BY THE EFFORTS
OF A GIRL, FIFTEEN YEARS OF AGE.
CHRISTMAS, 1907.

The girl was Grace Hooley, daughter of Edgar Purnell Hooley, County Surveyor, who lived at East Bridgford Manor. The East Bridgford Magazine of January 1908 recorded the work undertaken: 'The pulpit has been provided with a new and handsome oak base, and has itself been cleansed from its many coats of unsightly varnish, and repaired.'

Lectern

The brass eagle lectern has an inscription that reads:

TO THE GLORY OF GOD. PRESENTED TO ST PETER'S CHURCH, EAST BRIDGFORD NOTTS BY HENRY GIBSON JALLAND, IN LOVING MEMORY OF HIS MOTHER MATILDA JALLAND, WHO DIED AT THE MANOR HOUSE EAST BRIDGFORD 20TH DAY OF DECEMBER 1890. AET. 71.

Candlesticks

Two, of metal, twentieth century.

Flower stand

Metal, twentieth century.

Benches

Wood of nineteenth century with closed panel backs, shaped ends with simple moulded edging.

Wands

Four churchwardens’ and vergers’ wands, two with brass mitre finials, and one with brass crown finial.

Board

West nave wall Wood board listing
rectors and charities		 Board detail Royal Coat of Arms

Board consisting of seven wooden panels, three with list of rectors, four with list of charities, mounted on the west wall of the nave.

Royal Coat of Arms

1603-1707 Garter Coat of Arms
  1 and 4, quarterly modern France and England
2 Scotland
3 Ireland

Lighting

Twentieth century up-lighting on arcades.

North Aisle

Altar

Plain stone, brought from Chapel of the Society of the Sacred Mission, Kelham Hall, 1974.

Candlesticks

Two flat brass candleholders, twentieth century.

Benches

Wood of nineteenth century with closed panel backs, shaped ends with simple moulded edging.

Banner

Mothers’ Union twentieth century.

Chair

Glastonbury, undecorated.

Prie dieu

Two wooden, dates uncertain.

Roof

Wall posts decorated with escutcheons.

Kneelers

Decorated with different symbols, twentieth century.

South Aisle

Reredos

South aisle altar Reredos

Decorated with polyptych with top rail with tracery.

Cross

Brass altar cross with fleur de lys endings to arms.

Remembrance stand

Twentieth century Book of Remembrance stand with desk top with glazed top with shelf uniting the four column legs.

Credence table

Credence table Anglo-Saxon
cross fragment

Fragment of Anglo-Saxon cross forming the base of the credence table.

Chair

Glastonbury, undecorated.

Candleholders

Two twentieth century turned wood.

Cross

Processional with cross head painted.

Statuette

Virgin and child Detail

Statuette of Virgin and Child standing on wall bracket.

Cross

Metal Corpus Christi fixed on wood Latin cross.

Benches

Wood of nineteenth century with closed panel backs shaped ends with simple moulded edging.

Banner

Processional banner of Mothers’ Union.

Piscina

A pillar piscina with small octagonal basin with fluted shaft on square pedestal.

Bookcase

Made in village in memory of Henry Russell, Rector’s Warden, 1962-65.

Font

Font Detail

1663 with octagonal basin with decorated facets, octagonal shaft with alternate fleur de lys and tudor roses on facets, octagonal plinth. Formerly in Bingham church.

Flagon

Brass flagon for filling font.

Banners

Two British Legion banners.

Plans

Archtect's plan of the
1913-14 restoration

Plans of the church at different periods, architect’s plan of 1913-14 and photocopy of enclosure plan.

Lights

Four twentieth century metal pendant lights.

Door

The south door has a Suffolk latch dated 1662.