Morley St. Peter

Blomefield (1805-1810) writes: "The church of St. Butolph is the mother church, St. Peter's being only a chapel of ease, belonging to it, and had no separate rector, but was served by a curate, nominated by the rector [...] The chapel of St. Peter stands near three quarters of a mile southwest of St. Butolph's, on the road leading towards Atleburgh, and was founded by Sir William Bardolph, senior, Lord Bardolph, before the year 1240, the Bishop granting him license so to do, and it being esteemed much to the ease of the parishioners, it was made a parochial chapel, dependant on St. Butolph's church, and had baptism, sepulture, and liberty of administration of all the sacraments allowed it; the rector, who had consented to its erection, was to serve it by a chaplain". A font here is noted in Pevsner & Wilson (1999): "Font. Octagonal, Perp[endicular], simple." [NB: since St. Peter's was parochial and had baptism rights it would have had an earlier font, of which we have no information].