Church Of St Peter Mancroft

TG 2208 SE, 22/817

ST. PETER'S STREET (east side)

Church of St Peter Mancroft

26.02.54

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Parish Church. C15. Ashlar faced and flushwork. Lead roofs. West tower. Nave and chancel in one. North and south aisles and porches. North and south transepts. Three-storey east vestry.

3-stage tower with five stages of set-back buttresses:- North, south and west ground-floor openings and inside west doorway. Tierceron vault inside with central bell-hoist hole. Extravagant use of statue niches, blind arcading and flushwork on tower. Perpendicular 5-light west window with 2-centre arch and 3-light belfry windows. Polygonal corner turrets and late C19 spirelet. 6-bay nave with 4-light windows having 2-centre arches. 2-storeyed north porch with shafted outer doorway and niche above. Lierne vault inside. Single-storey south porch. 3-bay chancel with 3-light windows. Single-bay transepts. Continuous base-frieze of flushwork with stone shields. Large 7-light east window repaired in 1648 and flanked by polygonal corner turrets. Seventeen clerestory windows.

INTERIOR:- arcade piers with four shafts and small hollow diagonals. Double order 2-centre arches. Tall tower arch. Fine hammer-beam roof with long wall-posts between the clerestory windows supported on corbels. The hammer beams are concealed by ribbed coving. The aisle roofs are arch-braced with carved spandrels. Brick-built under-croft beneath the north transept. Timber font canopy on four square supports with crocketed super-structure.

Listing NGR: TG2293208426