Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032562
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1032562
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Athelington
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 21030 70982
Details
ATHELINGTON TM 27 SW 5/5 Church of St Peter 29.7.55 GV II* Parish church. Medieval; restored 1873-4. A small church with continuous nave and chancel, west tower and south porch. Flint rubble with stone dressings. The tower is of knapped flint with an admixture of red brick; brick quoins to the east and to the stair turret. Plaintiled roof. Square unbuttressed tower, largely C15; the top section is missing and there is a pyramidal slated roof crowned by a wind vane. Stair turret to south. Moulded west doorway with late C19 corbel heads. 2-light west window with early C14 tracery but Perpendicular-style head; a different window here is shown on an engraving of 1833 hanging in the church. Above is a small 2-light window with square head. Simple louvred belfry openings. Nave and chancel probably early C14. Side windows in Perpendicular style; original 3-light east window with intersecting Y-tracery and inscription at base. Restored south doorway to nave with late C19 corbel heads. Knapped flint porch of 1873. Interior. C14 scissor-braced rafter roof with collars and ashlar pieces. Moulded cornice, enriched in the chancel with embattling and fleurons. Rood beam in situ, supported by 2 good C14 corbel heads of a king and queen, placed here from elsewhere in the church in 1873. Trefoil-headed piscina with drop-sill sedilia adjacent. C15 octagonal font, the bowl panels shallow-carved with traceried designs, no 2 alike. In the nave, 10 fine poppyhead bench-ends of C15 date, carefully restored in C19. The ends are traceried and there are side buttresses supporting standing figures or heads. 4 similar bench-ends to the east are good C19 copies. At the west end, 2 C15 half-ends. Remainder of benches and other furnishings date largely from late C19.
Listing NGR: TM2103070982
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 280946
- 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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