Church of St Peter
Church of St Peter, Wash Lane, Spexhall, IP19 0RQ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032046
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Wash Lane, Spexhall, IP19 0RQ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032046
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, Wash Lane, Spexhall, IP19 0RQ
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Wash Lane, Spexhall, IP19 0RQ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Spexhall
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 37832 80175
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 2 March 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TM 38 SE
2/18
SPEXHALL
WASH LANE
Church of St. Peter
(Formerly listed as Church of St. Peter, CHURCH LANE)
1-9-55
II*
Parish church. C12, C15, C18, C19 and early C20. Random flint, with plaintiled roofs. Nave, chancel, south porch, and round battlemented west tower which is a rebuild of 1911 of the earlier tower, said to be Saxon, which fell in 1725. The remainder of the church is basically Norman.
Norman north doorway to nave with simple, partly defaced, carving to the arch. Early C14 south doorway, with multiple continuous mouldings, inside a porch rebuilt in 1733. Perpendicular two-light windows. The east wall was rebuilt in 1713 and has a trellis pattern of red brick on flint, and two stepped diagonal buttresses, that on the south-east dated June 18th, 1713. The three-light east window with panel tracery was inserted in 1876. Over the priest's door on the south side of the chancel is a flying buttress added in 1888.
Extensively restored interior of 1876: the roof, pews, tiles and plaster are all of that date. A holy water stoup to each side of the south door. An octagonal C15 font with low base, panelled shaft, and quatrefoils with shields round the bowl. Piscinae in the nave and chancel have identical cinquefoil cusping to the heads and chamfered jambs with broach stops. C15 heraldic glass in the north west window of the nave. The doorway and part of the stairs to the rood are in the north wall of the nave beside the panelled, but much restored, C17 pulpit.
In front of the nave benches, the remains of two C15 benches with poppyheads and the remains of a further 4 pairs in the chancel. A section of Jacobean panelling against the
north wall of the chancel. The stained glass in the east window is a memorial to Queen Victoria. On the south nave wall, brasses commemorating John and Maria Browne and their family: 1591, 1593 and 1601.
Listing NGR: TM3783280175
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282092
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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