Church Of St Peter Mancroft

The Church of St Peter Mancroft is a parish church dating from the 15th century. It features an ashlar-faced exterior with flushwork and lead roofs. The structure includes a west tower, a nave and chancel combined, north and south aisles, and porches, as well as north and south transepts and a three-storey east vestry.

The tower is three stages high with five stages of set-back buttresses. It has openings on the north, south, and west sides at ground level, along with an interior west doorway. Inside, there is a tierceron vault with a central bell-hoist hole. The tower is adorned with numerous statue niches, blind arcading, and flushwork. The west window is a Perpendicular style 5-light window with a two-centre arch, complemented by 3-light belfry windows. The tower also features polygonal corner turrets and a late 19th-century spirelet. The nave has six bays with 4-light windows that have two-centre arches. The north porch is two-storeyed, with a shafted outer doorway and a niche above, while the south porch is single-storey. The chancel has three bays with 3-light windows, and the transepts are single-bay. A continuous base-frieze of flushwork with stone shields runs along the building. The large 7-light east window, which was repaired in 1648, is flanked by polygonal corner turrets. There are seventeen clerestory windows.

Inside, the arcade piers are composed of four shafts with small hollow diagonals, supporting double order two-centre arches. The tall tower arch leads into the nave, which features a fine hammer-beam roof with long wall-posts positioned between the clerestory windows, supported on corbels. The hammer beams are concealed by ribbed coving. The aisle roofs are arch-braced with carved spandrels. Beneath the north transept is a brick-built under-croft, and there is a timber font canopy supported by four square posts, topped with a crocketed super-structure.