Church of St. Peter

SU 35 NE 2/5

LINKENHOLT Church of St. Peter

(formerly listed as Church)

20.12.60

II Parish church. 1871, by William White. A rebuilding in Early English style of a Norman church, incorporating original doorway, font, and one window. Aisleless nave and chancel with a small north vestry and a south porch.

Tile roof, bell turret at the west end with exposed timber frame (with plastered panels), the west main three verticals resting on stone brackets: shingled broach spire. Walls of large flints with stone dressings and thin red brick bands, one stepped buttress: three small windows (one being an early window rebuilt into the north side of the nave) four traceried lights, triple lancets at the east end, narrow priest's and vestry doors, and a (replaced) entrance doorway having a round arch and simple label motif. The gabled and timber-framed porch rests on the stone base walls. Within, there is a piscina and a low gated screen beneath the chancel arch, massive belfry timbers, and a Norman font (being a tapered drum with a shallow chevron ornament at the top), coloured floor tiles to the chancel, arch-braced chancel roof and Kingpost trusses to the nave.

Listing NGR: SP3521952774