Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, GUNTON CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208952
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, GUNTON CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1208952
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, GUNTON CHURCH LANE
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, GUNTON CHURCH LANE
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 54229 95752
Details
LOWESTOFT
TM59NW GUNTON CHURCH LANE, Gunton 914-1/1/92 (West side) 13/12/49 Church of St Peter
II*
Parish Church. C12, re-worked c1340, restored 1700, 1790 and 1901. West tower, continuous nave and chancel, south porch. Whole flints with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roofs. 3-stage round C12 tower lit through a pointed lancet to lower stage and a rounded lancet to ringing chamber. Four 2-light C14 ogeed belfry windows with one reticulation unit each. Brick parapet of 1985 conceals low conical roof. Brick and flint gabled south porch entered through a 4-centred arch under a square brick hood on labels. One C19 lancet to east and west flanks. Inner south door has one order of Norman zig-zag. The main south wall lit through a central pointed lancet and a C19 two-light Y-tracery window either side. Triple stepped lancets to east end, also C19. The north side has a gabled C19 chancel vestry entered through a doorway in the west return. The main wall is pierced by (east to west) a C13 pointed lancet, a round-headed C12 lancet and a C19 pointed lancet. Next west is a Norman north doorway: 2 orders of engaged shafts with block capitals; the round arch has an outer roll moulding and inner zig-zag. INTERIOR. Round-arched early Norman tower arch with minimal long-and-short quoins. Pews and scissor-braced roof all 1901. 4-centred arch leads on north side to blocked rood stairs. Arched piscina and bench sedilia in chancel.
Listing NGR: TM5422995752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391287
- 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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