Church of St Peter and St Paul

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TF 56 NE INGOLDMELLS HIGH STREET (north side)

7/34 Church of St. Peter and 3.2.67 St. Paul

G.V. I

Parish church. c.1200, C13, C14, C15 chancel demolished 1706, restored 1858, 1898. Ashlar and squared coursed limestone rubble. Red brick. Slate and lead roofs. Western tower, nave with clerestorey, aisles, south porch, vestry. 3 stage C14 tower with stepped angle buttresses, plain offsets and embattled parapet. In the belfry stage are single broad 3 light windows, cusped heads and concave chamfered surrounds, with below single 2 light Y traceried windows. The west window is pointed with chamfered surround, hood and human head stops. The north aisle has lead roof and C15 panel traceried window to east and west and to the north are 4 two light C14 flowing traceried windows. Brick gabled Cl9 vestry with pointed door and lights. The slate nave roof has C13 clerestorey of 2 paired and single triplet of cusped lights. The east wall of the nave has a blank semi- circular arch in the blocking with "WA 1757" on the keystone. In the east wall of the south aisle is a 3 light C13 intersecting traceried window. The south side has 4 C14 windows matching those to the north and the west window matches the north aisle west window. The gabled C14 south porch has a double shafted outer doorway with quatrefoils to the base and annular capitals, the double moulded arch has an outer door of fleurons and hood mould with lion stops. Side benches, quatrefoil side lights. The inner doorway is continuously moulded with hood having human head stops. C18 panelled door. To the right of the door is an ogee head niche. Interior. 6 bay c.1200 nave arcades with round shafts, spurred bases, stiff leaf capitals, double chamfered arches. C14 tower arch with engaged triple shafts with foliate capitals and triple chamfered arch. In the south aisle a cusped ogee headed piscina and in the north aisle a similar niche. Fittings. A full set of C15 benches with poppyhead ends and panel traceried rear panels. The elaborate octagonal C15 font has panelled stem and bowl containing fleurons in cusped panels with beast head embellishments, Cl9 conical wooden cover with freestyle carving and brattished rim. Monuments. At the east end of the nave are 2 C15 ledger slabs, and in the north chapel a small brass to William Palmer d.1520, depicting a cripple with his crutch.

Listing NGR: TF5595068834

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