Church of St Peter and St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church with fabric dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries, but largely rebuilt and restored around 1837 by John Brown of Norwich. The church is constructed of flint, partly rendered and faced with ashlar, with limestone and brick dressings, and has slated roofs. It comprises a west tower, nave, chancel, north and south porches, and north and south transepts.

The west tower retains medieval fabric with staged diagonal buttresses. It has plain, louvred bell openings with stone, chamfered reveals and pointed arches, and an embattled parapet of chequerwork brick and flint, with brick corner finials and roll-top copings. A two-light west window is dated to the late 14th century. A 19th-century south porch features two-light windows with square heads and drip moulds, an ogee-headed niche containing a figure of Christ over the entrance arch, and a gable parapet with a cross finial. The south nave windows are two-light windows with Y tracery. The gabled south transept has a three-light south window with intersecting tracery. Memorial slabs on the east wall commemorate Edward and Elizabeth Bound (died 1801 and 1799 respectively) and Elizabeth Bound (died 1792). The south wall of the chancel has a plain semi-circular headed window to the west and a priests’ door set in a small gabled projection. The east wall has coped gable parapets and pilaster buttresses, leading to a large single-light, semi-circular headed east window with continuous roll moulding and a small niche above. Two semi-circular headed windows are on the north side of the chancel, and the north transept mirrors the south, with a three-light window with intersected tracery. The north nave has two two-light windows with Y tracery. The north porch has been altered and extended westward with a flat-roofed section to serve as a vestry. The south doorway has a hood mould, showing signs of head caving at the apex, and is considered 14th century, though possibly rebuilt.

The 19th-century nave roof features arch-braced principals on short wallposts, with a plain boarded ceiling and diagonal ribs at the crossing. A west gallery with a solid balustrade incorporating traceried panels dates to the early 19th century. The chancel arch has continuous mouldings. The chancel roof is arch-braced and roll-moulded, with painted principals and purlins, supported by wallposts on consoles, and the chancel ceiling is plastered. A wall monument is dedicated to Elizabeth French (died 1731), and there are 18th and 19th century floor slabs in the nave and chancel. A good 15th-century octagonal font features figures of angels alternating with the signs of the evangelists around the bowl and carved angels with outspread wings on the corbels; the stem has four lions and four standing figures.