Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077312
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077312
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE STREET
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, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 02037 06006
Details
GARVESTONE THE STREET TG 00 NW Reymerston 6/34 Church of St.Peter 30.5.60 - I Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Lead and pantile roofs. West tower; aisled nave with north porch; chancel with vestry to south. C13 west tower with projecting stair turret to north. One pair of angle buttresses and one diagonal buttress to western angles. Later doorway to south. Lancet windows to ground and first floor levels. 2-light cusped Y-traceried windows to western ends of aisles. South aisle with a plain chamfered doorway of 2 orders and 3 2-light restored Perpendicular windows and a restored 3-light cusped Y-traceried east window. North aisle with a deeply moulded C13 doorway on 2 pairs of nook shafts and with a dogtooth hoodmould. 3 restored 2-light Perpendicular windows and a fine cusped Y-traceried east window incorporating cusped circles. Late Medieval porch with diagonal buttresses and 2-light cusped side windows. 6 2-light late Medieval cusped clearstorey windows - the central pair with wider mullions in order to accommodate the roof wall-posts. Chancel with one 2-light window to north in Decorated style and a 3-light east window in Geometric style. Small modern vestry to south. Interior. 4-bay late C13 arcades on circular piers to north and alternating octagonal and circular piers to south. Stiff leaf capitals to circular piers (except for one which is not decorated) and water-holding bases. Interesting develop- ment of arch mouldings; the easternmost pair of arches with deeply cut small roll mouldings; the 2 intermediate pairs with triple soffit rolls (the outer- most keeled); the westernmost pair plain chamfered. Small tower arch with triple soffit roll identical to the intermediate arches of the main arcades. Plain chamfered chancel arch of 2 orders. C15 arch-braced roof with single rolls to principal beams and embattled roll-moulded wall plates. C15 octagonal font with Evangelist symbols and Prophets. Carved stem with rosettes and one surviving lion spur. Pews with plain poppy-head bench-ends. C18 box pews in aisles. Triple decker pulpit with C17 upper and middle boxes and the clerk's desk and tester C18. Fine bracket and lunette carvings. Very elaborate north European Baroque altar rails in carved and pierced wood with acanthus scroll work, swags and 2 medallions with biblical scenes. Fine C18 Gothic Revival choir stalls.
Listing NGR: TG0203706006
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220826
- 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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