Church Of St Peter And St John

The Church of St Peter and St John is a parish church located in Lowestoft. The north-west tower dates from the early 15th century, while the rest of the church was built between 1875 and 1887. It is constructed of cut flint with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs. The church includes a nave, aisles, and a chancel, with a baptistry added to the south of the tower in 1893.

The tower is four stages high and has diagonal stepped buttresses. It features a three-light Perpendicular west window, which has been restored, and a lancet window above in the second stage. The ringing chamber is lit by a cusped square light, and the belfry has two-light louvred windows. The parapet is adorned with four corner turrets. Between the gabled, apsed baptistry and the tower is a square vestry with square-headed lights. The baptistry itself has trefoiled lancets with trefoils above. The church has four-bay aisles supported by stepped buttresses and features two-light Perpendicular windows. The clerestory has five square windows with quatrefoils or cusped petal motifs, and there is a square south porch. The chancel has a five-light east window and two three-light side windows, with the northern windows omitted to accommodate the canted chancel vestry.

Inside, the church features a five-bay double-chamfered arcade on octagonal piers made of yellow brick with red brick banding. The chancel arch is very wide, and the roof is arch-braced on wall posts that drop to corbels. The baptistry showcases polychrome brickwork. The west tower arch is chamfered with wave-moulded jambs and includes one order of engaged columns on high polygonal bases. The font, which is plain octagonal and dates from the 15th century, was originally from Gillingham church in Norfolk and features quatrefoils on its bowl facets. There is a wrought-iron screen in the baptistry from 1893 and a chancel screen from 1896, both modified from designs by Arthur Bloomfield.