Church Of St Peter And St John

LOWESTOFT

TM59SW ST PETER'S ROAD, Kirkley 914-1/3/95 (West side) 03/10/77 Church of St Peter and St John

II*

Parish Church. Early C15 north-west tower, the remainder 1875-87. Cut flint with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Nave, aisles and chancel, the baptistry added south of the tower 1893. 4-stage tower with diagonal stepped buttresses. 3-light Perpendicular west window, restored. Lancet to second stage above. Cusped square light to ringing chamber. 2-light louvred belfry windows. 4 corner turrets to the parapet. Between the gabled, apsed, baptistry and the tower is a square vestry lit through square-headed lights. The baptistry has trefoiled lancets with trefoils above. 4-bay aisles with stepped buttresses and 2-light Perpendicular windows. 5 square clerestory windows with quatrefoils or cusped petal motifs. Square south porch. 5-light chancel east window and 2 3-light side windows, those to the north omitted to facilitate the canted chancel vestry. INTERIOR. 5-bay double-chamfered arcade on octagonal piers of yellow brick with red brick banding. Very wide chancel arch. Arch-braced roof on wall posts dropping to corbels. Polychrome brick to baptistry. Chamfered west tower arch on wave-moulded jambs with one order of engaged columns on high polygonal bases. Plain octagonal C15 font from Gillingham church, Norfolk: quatrefoils to bowl facets. Wrought-iron Baptistry screen 1893 and chancel screen 1896 modified from a design by Arthur Bloomfield. (Strutt T: The Church of St Peter, Kirkley: Lowestoft: 1978-).

Listing NGR: TM5405291567