CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1194745
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1194745
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

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:: CHURCH OF ST PETER

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: West Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Nowton
National Grid Reference:: TL 86330 60467

Details

TL 86 SE NOWTON

4/21 Church of St. peter - 14.7.55 II*

Parish church. C12, C13 and C14; much restored and enlarged in 1843. In random flint, extensively repointed, with freestone quoins and dressings. Old plain-tiled roofs: a small pitched dormer on each side of the nave roof, and Victorian ornamental ridge-tiles. Simple Norman south doorway, and a C12 north doorway, with keeled roll-moulding and one order of shafts with volute capitals, incorporated into a north aisle in Victorian Romanesque style. A small plain Norman window has also been reused at the east end of this aisle. Early C13 chancel. 2-light ogee-headed windows to north and south, and a 3- light east window with intersecting tracery and mouchettes. Angle buttresses at the east end. Unbuttressed C14 tower in 3 stages: plain base; freestone quoins, dressings and string-courses; stone facing to the crenellated parapet, which has damaged pinnacles at the corners. A 2-light window with flowing tracery to the lowest stage of the west face, a single cinquefoil-headed window in the second stage, and a 2-light cusped Y-tracery window to each face of the top stage. A canted stair-turret on the south side with a conical roof. Very little original work survives inside: most of the fittings, and the north arcade in Romanesque style, date from the 1843 restoration. Extensively restored screen. A simple trefoil-headed piscina, and a stone reredos with cinquefoil panels, in the chancel. A high canopied niche on each side of the east window. Steeply-pitched roofs to nave and chancel: arch- braced, with mouldings to purlins and braces; 4 bays to nave, 2 bays with lower collars to chancel; shields at the intersections, and curious lozenge- shaped carved bosses added later. A feature of the church are the numerous small roundels of engraved C16/C17 Flemish glass in the nave and chancel windows, about 75 in all, set into brightly-coloured surrounds of C19 stained glass. These were brought 'from monasteries in Brussels' in the early C19 by Orbell Ray Oakes, who lived at Nowton Court. Various memorial tablets on the walls, mainly to the Oakes family; the marble monument to Elizabeth Frances Oakes, d.1811, by John Bacon Jnr. shows a draped female figure kneeling beside a sarcophagus.

Listing NGR: TL8633060467

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Legacy System number:: 284442
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.