Church Of St Peter And Paul is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A Medieval Church.

Church Of St Peter And Paul

WRENN ID
muted-slate-claret
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter and Paul is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and features slate and copper roofs. The church has a west tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, a south transept, and a chancel. The west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a two-light panel traceried west window with an embattled transom. There is a canted staircase projection on the north side and two-light cusped Y-traceried bell-openings. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet that includes flushwork.

Inside the nave, there is a Norman west jamb from a former south door located to the west of the porch, along with two restored two-light traceried windows on the south side. A 14th-century plain chamfered doorway is present, with a re-set Norman prokrossos above it. There is also a blocked 14th-century plain chamfered doorway on the north side, which has fragments of a former Norman doorway adjacent to it. The nave contains one three-light panel traceried window and one three-light window with mouchettes, as well as signs of a former rood stair.

The south transept features a four-light panel traceried window in the gable end, while the south porch has a four-centred entrance arch. The chancel includes two 14th-century two-light windows on the south side, which have dagger soufflets, and a priest's door with carved label stops. The east window of the chancel is a 15th-century three-light window.

Inside, the church has a three-ordered tower arch without responds, a moulded four-centred chancel arch on facetted responds, and a plain chamfered four-centred transept arch on corbels. There is a plain blocked rood stair doorway on the north side, a medieval arch-braced chancel roof, and an octagonal font with rustic and mutilated carvings.

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