Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.

Church of St. Peter and St. Paul

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Great Yarmouth
Country
England
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul is a parish church featuring a 12th-century west tower with a late 13th-century belfry. The nave was built in the 14th century and has been restored, while the chancel, originally constructed between 1454 and 1458, was demolished and replaced in the 18th century. The entire church underwent restoration in the 19th century. The building is made of quaternary flint and chert, with brick and Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings, and the chancel is constructed of brick. It has slate roofs.

The tower is three stages high, with the lower two stages being circular and pierced by a single lancet window on the west side. The octagonal belfry stage features two-light windows on alternate facets, which have trefoiled lights separated by shafts with capitals and bases, as well as a cusped punched vesica. The blank facets of the belfry are adorned with double arcading, also featuring shafts and punched vesicas. A crenellated brick parapet from the 15th century crowns the tower, which has diagonal stepped corner buttresses and stepped side buttresses. The early 17th-century south porch is gabled and built of brick, supported by diagonal buttresses. The entrance has a four-centred arch with three orders of cut bricks, and there is a wall sundial above the apex. The church has lancet side windows, with flint also used in the side walls. The south nave features two two-light cusped and ogeed windows with quatrefoil vesicas, while the north nave has three similar but larger windows from a later date in the 14th century. There is a late 13th-century plain doorway on the north side of the nave. The chancel, built in two bays of brick in the 18th century, has two two-light cusped intersecting windows on the flanks and an arched priests' door on the south side, along with a similar three-light window on the east.

Inside, the south porch roof has moulded principals, one tier of butt purlins, ashlaring, and a decorated wall plate. The inner south doorway features wave mouldings, and the tower lancet is deeply splayed. There is a round tower doorway leading into the nave. The nave has a 19th-century scissor-braced roof, and the rood stairs are preserved on the south side. The chancel arch is also from the 19th century, while part of a 16th-century screen remains, consisting of two bays on either side of the opening with thin tracery below the top rail. The font, dating from the 15th century, is octagonal and features two tiers of trefoiled tracery on each stem panel, with bowl panels decorated with shields set in quatrefoils. The chancel roof has a king post design from the 19th century.

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