Parish Church Of St Peter, Petersfield

After lunch at the Tea Room at the nursery at Trotton (which had no heating!), we went on for a look round Petersfield and went in the church again.

This church has a complicated history and was started in the 1120's and further altered afterwards. The two windows over the chancel are from the earliest phase of building and were part of a central tower. It is not known whether this tower was ever completed and later taken down but the remaining section forms the east wall of the nave. The windows high up either side above the arcades and much of the chancel beyond date from 1873-4 and were the work of architect, Sir Arthur Blomfield. The three windows you can see in the chancel are known as lancet windows and these are arranged as a triplet with one higher than the two flanking it. This is a common feature of Blomfield who used it at both nearby St Mary, East Liss (1891-92) and nearer home at Roffey (1878) and who took this design from Medieval churches of around 1220 found over many parts of England.