Church Of St Peter Parmentergate

TG 2308 SW KING STREET (west side) 23/437 26.2.54. Church of St. Peter Parmentergate. - I Former parish church now redundant. Late C15 and early C16. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Slate roof to nave and plain tile to chancel. West tower, nave and chancel. South porch. East vestry. 3 stage tower with diagonal buttresses. West door with 2-centre arch, carved spandrels and shield frieze above. 2 3-light windows and square traceried sound holes above. Crenellated parapet. 4 bay nave C.1490 with 4-light Perpendicular windows having 2-centre arches. 2 storied porch:- outer doorway with attached shafts and a 2-centre arch with spandrels. 2-light window above doorway. The east window on the north side of the nave is partly blocked by a semi-octagonal rood turret of C.1510. 2 bay chancel C.1510 with flat intersecting tracery beneath 4-centre arch. 4-light Perpendicular east window with 2-centre arch. 2 storied vestry with 2 3-light and 2 2-light lancet windows beneath square heads. Central statue niche. Tower arch and tall wide chancel arch with attached shaft and 2-centre arch. Nave roof:- butt-purlin with the tower attached, arch-braces springing from wall-posts. Tomb of Richard Berney, 1623, in chancel:- 2 recumbent figures beneath canopy supported by 4 columns. Arms of Hobart and Berney above. Victorian screen to chancel has reset C15 tracery and figures.

Listing NGR: TG2339108373