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St Peter's Church is a redundant Anglican church in Marefair, Northampton, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as an assigned Grade I recorded building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It is thought to be "the most remarkable Norman church in the district", and "its capital figure is one of the features of the Romanesque in England". Alec Clifton-Taylor incorporates the congregation in his rundown of 'best' English area houses of worship. The congregation remains on a site between a previous Anglo-Saxon royal residence and Northampton Castle. Two past houses of worship have been on the site, one implicit wood, the other in stone.
St Peter's is built in ruddy ironstone and yellowish oolithic limestone. The two shades of stone are in a few sections of the congregation utilized then again for enriching purposes both remotely and inside. The arrangement of the congregation comprises of a nave and chancel with no auxiliary division. There are north and south walkways reaching out along both the nave and the chancel. The passageways along the edges of the chancel are currently utilized as vestries. Above both the nave and the chancel is a clerestory. There are entryways on both the north and south sides of the nave, the entryway on the north additionally having a patio. Both entryways are in Norman style with round-headed curves.
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