Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172491
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1172491
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mattishall
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 05656 11763
Details
MATTISHALL MATTISHALL BURGH TG 0511 12/69 Church of St.Peter 30.5.60 - I
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Pantile roofs. Western tower; aisleless nave with south porch and large north chapel; chancel. Unbuttressed west tower of, probably, c.1300 with a rounded stair turret to south and 2 moulded stringcourses. A 2-light cusped Y-traceried west window beneath a 4-centred arch. Galletted flintwork to ground floor stage. Middle stage with 2 small quatrefoil windows and one rectangular loop. 2-light bell openings: with cusping, ogee head and carved label stops to south; cusping yet with a simpler hood mould to west; plain Y-traceried to north and east. Nave of C11 or early C12 date with flint western quoins and coursed walling. One blocked 2-light window and a restored 2-light panel- traceried window to south. Blocked plain- chamfered doorway to north and a double ogee moulded south doorway. Sanctus bellcote on east gable. Late Medieval porch. C13 north chapel with single 2-light Y-traceried windows to east and west and 3-light Y-traceried window in north gable-end. Chancel with a modern panel-traceried 3-light east window and a C15 2-light window with a priest's doorway to south. Interior. 2-bay C13 arcade leading to north chapel with a quatrefoil central pier and plain chamfered arches of 2 orders. Double-ogee and wave-moulded tower arch on corbels. Plain-chamfered chancel arch on semcircular responds. Late Medieval scissor brace roof of 16 trusses with single sets of intermediate common rafters. Continuous purlins and a ridge piece. Ashlaring supported on double-ogee moulded plates. Post-Medieval 2-bay clasped purlin chancel roof with wind bracing. Arch braced tie beams have been removed. Angle piscina with a small octagonal shaft and cusped arches. Heavily restored late-Medieval chancel screen. Piscina in north chapel with ogee head. C13 Purbeck marble octagonal font with pairs of plain, shallow, pointed arches to each face. Supported on modern Purbeck marble shafts.
Listing NGR: TG0565611763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220861
- 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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