Church of St Peter and Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077339
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077339
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND PAUL
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 AND PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wendling
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 93134 13134
Details
TF 91 SW WENDLING
5/41 Church of St.Peter 30/5/60 and Paul
- II*
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar dressings. Slate and copper roofs. West tower; aisleless nave with south porch and south transept; chancel. West tower with diagonal buttresses. 2-light panel traceried west window with embattled transom. Canted staircase projection to north. 2-light cusped Y-traceried bell-openings. Crenellated parapet with flushwork. Nave with Norman west jamb of former south door to west of porch. 2 restored 2- light traceried windows to south. C14 plain chamfered doorway with a re-set Norman prokrossos above. Blocked C14 plain chamfered doorway to north with fragments of former Norman doorway to the side. One 3-light panel traceried window and one 3-light window with mouchettes. Signs of former rood stair. South transept with a 4-light panel traceried window in gable-end. South porch with 4-centred entrance arch. Chancel with 2 C14 2-light windows to south with dagger soufflets. Priest's door with carved label stops. C15 3-light east window. Interior 3-ordered tower arch without responds. Moulded 4-centred chancel arch on facetted responds. Plain chamfered 4-centred tran- sept arch on corbels. Plain blocked rood stair doorway to north. Medieval arch braced chancel roof. Octagonal font with rustic and mutilated carvings.
Listing NGR: TF9313413134
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220788
- 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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