CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, FERRY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1050629
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, FERRY ROAD

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Date:: 2002-03-24
Reference:: IOE01/06028/21
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1050629
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, FERRY ROAD

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, FERRY ROAD

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County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Carleton St. Peter
National Grid Reference:: TG 33967 02287

Details

CARLETON ST. PETER FERRY ROAD, West Side TG 30 SW 2/31 Church of St. Peter 5.9.60 II*

Parish church. Fabric mainly 13th century and 14th century with later additions and remodelling. Flint and brick with limestone and brick dressings. Slate roofs, continuous over nave and chancel. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch, north vestry. Early 16th century west tower of red brick, limestone and flint with staged diagonal western buttresses dressed in brick. Two-light bell openings with chamfered brick mullions and reveals. 3-light west window under a four-centred arch with drip mould: shallow inter- secting traceried head and chamfered brick reveals (mullions replaced in later red brick). Single opening above west window with brick arch and jambs. Later embattled parapet of flint dressed with red brick on moulded brick string course. Polygonal stair turret on south side. 19th century south porch in knapped flint: diagonal buttresses and coped parapet to south gable. Single-light east and west windows. Windows on south side generally 19th century restorations, 2-light square-headed with Perp. tracery. One lancet of c.1200 remains in nave south wall, with hollow roll moulded arch and jambs. To the west side of the lancet, a blocked semi-circular headed Norman window. 19th century 3-light east window. On the north side, three 19th century lancets with a small 14th century lancet to the west of the vestry. 19th century vestry with square-headed 2-light windows with drip moulds. Shallow staged brick buttress at NE corner of tower. Interior: nave and chancel ceiling boarded and battened. Tower arch with polygonal responds and double chamfered arch. 14th century screen much restored in 19th century, but retaining original colour and trail design on principal posts and rails. 15th century poppy-head benches. Trefoil headed. stoup in south wall of nave, the head disfigured by 20th century replastering. Late 13th century piscina in south wall of chancel. In north wall of chancel a slate memorial slab to the five children of Mr. Salletts and a segmental-headed recess containing a panel of black-letter script, 16th century. Octagonal font on two risers with arcaded stem and quatrefoil panels to bowl.

Listing NGR: TG3396702287

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Legacy System number:: 226738
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.