Church of St Peter and Paul is a Grade II* listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1961. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter and Paul
- WRENN ID
- eternal-moat-wind
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1961
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter and Paul, the Street, Burgh and Tuttington
- OS grid reference
- TG 226 271
- Coordinates
- 52.7963, 1.30119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and Paul is a parish church with a 12th-century round tower, while the rest of the structure primarily dates from the 15th century. It is built of flint with limestone dressings, featuring a pantiled roof on the nave and a plain-tiled roof on the chancel and porch. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, and a south porch. The 12th-century west tower has a later brick parapet and a lead-covered spirelet topped with a weathercock. The bell openings on the north and south sides have 'Y' tracery, while the east and west openings are blocked. The south porch has an ogee-headed foiled niche above the doorway and was originally two storeys, though the upper floor has been removed. There are blocked upper and lower windows in the east and west walls, and a door to the upper chamber remains in the south wall of the nave. The three south aisle windows feature much renewed Perpendicular tracery, while the north aisle windows are also Perpendicular, with the centre window displaying earlier Decorated motifs. Staged buttresses with flint panels separate the bays, and there is a nave eaves parapet.
Inside, there are stairs leading to the former upper room of the porch at the south-west corner of the nave and stairs to the rood loft at the north-east corner. A blocked north door is present. The pulpit, dated 1635, includes a stand for an hour-glass. The 15th-century octagonal font is adorned with shields in cusped panels, and its cover, dated 1638, features scrolls radiating from a central post. The church has very fine 15th-century carved bench-ends fitted to later benches, and a carved corbel-head, possibly intended for a rood beam, is located at the south-east corner of the nave. There are plain drop-cill sedilia and a piscina with a foiled head in the south wall of the chancel. The roofs and boarded ceilings over the nave and chancel were added in the 19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and Paul receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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