Church of St Peter and St John
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST JOHN, ST PETERS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207046
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St John
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST JOHN, ST PETERS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1207046
- Date first listed:
- 03-Oct-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St John
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST JOHN, ST PETERS ROAD
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 AND ST JOHN, ST PETERS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowestoft
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 54052 91567
Details
LOWESTOFT
TM59SW ST PETER'S ROAD, Kirkley 914-1/3/95 (West side) 03/10/77 Church of St Peter and St John
II*
Parish Church. Early C15 north-west tower, the remainder 1875-87. Cut flint with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Nave, aisles and chancel, the baptistry added south of the tower 1893. 4-stage tower with diagonal stepped buttresses. 3-light Perpendicular west window, restored. Lancet to second stage above. Cusped square light to ringing chamber. 2-light louvred belfry windows. 4 corner turrets to the parapet. Between the gabled, apsed, baptistry and the tower is a square vestry lit through square-headed lights. The baptistry has trefoiled lancets with trefoils above. 4-bay aisles with stepped buttresses and 2-light Perpendicular windows. 5 square clerestory windows with quatrefoils or cusped petal motifs. Square south porch. 5-light chancel east window and 2 3-light side windows, those to the north omitted to facilitate the canted chancel vestry. INTERIOR. 5-bay double-chamfered arcade on octagonal piers of yellow brick with red brick banding. Very wide chancel arch. Arch-braced roof on wall posts dropping to corbels. Polychrome brick to baptistry. Chamfered west tower arch on wave-moulded jambs with one order of engaged columns on high polygonal bases. Plain octagonal C15 font from Gillingham church, Norfolk: quatrefoils to bowl facets. Wrought-iron Baptistry screen 1893 and chancel screen 1896 modified from a design by Arthur Bloomfield. (Strutt T: The Church of St Peter, Kirkley: Lowestoft: 1978-).
Listing NGR: TM5405291567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391360
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Strutt, T, The Church of St Peter Kirkley, (1978)
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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