Winchcombe, Gloucester Street And St Peter's Church c.1955
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St Peter's is a splendid 15th- century church built in the Perpendicular style, although the interior was substantially renovated in 1872. The church boasts some of the most grotesque gargoyles in the Cotswolds. There are 40 of them in total, some representing demons, ghouls and ghosts, while the remainder are caricatures of people who lived hereabouts at the time when the waterspouts were carved. In the nave are two stone coffins discovered when the site of the Benedictine abbey was excavated by archaeologists in 1892. One is said to contain the remains of St Kenelm, the boy saint. The other is the coffin of King Kenulf, who ruled the Saxon kingdom of Mercia from AD796-821.
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