CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1153045
Date first listed: 05-Jun-1953
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF SAINT PETER AND SAINT PAUL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Norfolk
District: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish: Shernborne
National Grid Reference: TF 71377 32428
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
TF 73 SW SHERNBORNE
5/23 Church of SS Peter and
Paul.
5/6/53
II*
Parish Church. Norman and Early English, C11 and C13 evidence, largely rebuilt
1898 by H.J. Green, the Diocesan architect for Norwich, with Sir Reginald
Blomfield, an architect much employed on the Sandringham Estate, as consultant. -
Flint and carstone rubble, free-stone dressings, plain-tiled nave and chancel
roofs, lead south aisle roofs. Nave with south aisle and south porch, chancel.
External details all of 1898, still High Victorian in feeling in west window
tracery and bell cote. Interior has 2 bay south arcade with C13 Early English
or later central octagonal pier and 2 half-octagonal respond piers, with
moulded bases, renewed higher up. Closely set scissor braced roof to nave,
boarded to chancel. Tesselated floors. Font, stone, Norman, has base plinth,
shaft with 4 piers with bases and capitals, square bowl with slightly bowed
sides, angle piers with bases and capitals. Lion-mask to each of 4 sides,
interlace and inhabited scrolls. Brass: Sir Thomas Shernborne and wife; a
knight in armour and his lady, mounted on north wall. Pulpit 1898, pews 1919,
east window stained 1924.
Listing NGR: TF7137732428
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 221408
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.
End of official listing