RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST PETER

RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE CHASE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1152777
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE CHASE

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Date:: 1999-09-06
Reference:: IOE01/02121/06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1152777
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1959
List Entry Name:: RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE CHASE

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:: RUINS OF CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE CHASE

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County:: Norfolk
District:: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Wiggenhall St. Germans
National Grid Reference:: TF 60434 13252

Details

TF 61 SW WIGGENHALL ST. GERMANS THE CHASE

4/29 Ruins of Church of 8.7.59 St. Peter

- II*

Former parish church. Largely C15, chancel in construction 1421. Ashlar with brick repairs, no roof. West tower, nave, chancel. 3 stage tower, the lower 2 undifferentiated, flat buttresses to east, setback south-west, stair turret north-west. 3-light west window under hood. Square lancets to ringing chamber and 2-light belfry windows. Plain parapet. Low arched doors to north, south and west of tower. South aisle demolished 1840 and 3-light windows reset into blocked arcade arches. 4 bay arcade of square section piers with semi-circular lobes. North as south but with 5 stepped buttresses. Chancel windows 2-light : one to north, 2 to south, of earlier post-Decorated type than nave. East window under 4-centred arch but tracery mostly missing, unlike other fenestration.

Listing NGR: TF6043413252

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Legacy System number:: 221361
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.