Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1959. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- graven-corner-bistre
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Norfolk
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Honingham Road, Barnham Broom
- OS grid reference
- TG 082 077
- Coordinates
- 52.6279, 1.07529
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church dating from the 15th century. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, topped with concrete tiled roofs. The church features a western tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a chancel.
The tower is three storeys high, with staged diagonal buttresses, two-light traceried bell-openings, and a crenellated parapet adorned with flush work and carved finials at the corners that represent the symbols of the Evangelists. The window tracery was renewed in the 1850s. Inside, there is a 15th-century chancel arch with semi-circular responds and a wave-moulded head, as well as a tall 15th-century tower arch with plain jambs and a moulded two-ordered head. The chancel contains an angle piscina and former rood stairs on the north side of the nave.
A notable feature of the church is the fine 15th-century chancel screen, which has painted dado figures of saints and consists of seven bays with crocketted ogee arches and Perpendicular spandrel tracery. The original arch-braced nave roof remains intact. Other furnishings include a western gallery, pulpit, reredos, and an arch-braced chancel beam, dating from around 1850. The church is listed grade I, particularly for its chancel screen.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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