CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1037592
Date first listed:: 07-May-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1037592
Date first listed:: 07-May-1954
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH END

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH END

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County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Brandon
National Grid Reference:: TL 77707 86173

Details

TL 78 NE 1/4

BRANDON CHURCH END Church of St. Peter

(Formerly listed under General)

7.5.54

I Church. Medieval, restored 1873. Nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, south aisle, south chapel. Flint rubble with freestone dressings, parapets and parapet gables. Slated roofs; the tower and porch flat, leaded. The core of chancel probably late C13; north doorway with hood-mould; the scrolled dado rail around the inner chancel wall rises to outline its rear-arch. A pair of polygonal angle-turrets at the east end have stone pyramid roofs and pinnacles, restored 1873. Chancel windows perhaps early C14; net-traceried 5- light east window, and 2-light in north and south walls. The south window has dropped-cill sedilia with trefoiled squinches. 2 original gargoyles on north side. South nave arcade of originally 4-bays, late C13, with slender trefoiled piers, and similar chancel arch with engaged columns. Moulded arched north nave doorway of early C14, hoodmoulded with good mask drip stones. West tower added early C15: 3 tall stages with angle buttresses, crenellated parapet with sunk trefoils and mask gargoyles, large 2-light belfry openings. West doorway with C19 door having tracery of early C15 type - perhaps a fair copy of the original; above it an early C15 window of 3 lights. The inner doorway to the tower stairs has its original iron-clad door. Porch probably C15, with 2-light side windows, the doorway with pilasters renewed early C16. Beside the north doorway is a pillar stoup with traceried stem and moulded bowl. The C15 door has a trailing-leaf carved border. C15 south aisle with moulded south doorway. In early C16 major alterations made to south and west part of church: a 5th arch added to nave arcade, also the tower arch rebuilt. South chapel added with 3-light windows and an arched opening into the aisle. A rood screen extended from north to south walls across chancel-and chapel-arches; rood-loft stair turrets remain, attached to north and south walls, and a blocked doorway at south end. Lower part of screen is almost complete; the-boarding has applied tracery and some original decoration; the upper part added 1930. A 2-bay arcade links chapel to chancel. The roofs were renewed throughout in 1873: in the nave a 5-bay hammer-beam roof with arch-braced collars (the aisle roof is similar), in the chancel principal rafters and collars have vigorous soffit-cusping, echoed by wind-braced purlins. Font of c.1300 with plain octagonal bowl and stem and 8 supporting detached shafts with moulded caps and bases. 4 good C15 choir- stalls with poppyhead ends, buttresses and traceried fronts. In the nave are about 17 poppyhead bench ends of C15 or C16, some with buttresses and carved figures, reused in new pews of 1873. 3 further poppyhead ends of c.1600, also reused. The marble altar reredos of 1873 has Italian carved alabaster medallions. In the west tower window is stained glass dated 1864; similar glazing is in the west aisle and east chancel windows. On the south chapel wall a painted panel records the bequest of Mrs. Anne Wilder, nee Diggon, 1772.

Listing NGR: TL7770786173

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Legacy System number:: 275813
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.