Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, VICTORIA ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269731
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, VICTORIA ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269731
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, VICTORIA 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 PAUL, VICTORIA ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldeburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 46351 56851
Details
ALDEBURGH
TM4656 VICTORIA ROAD 837-1/4/51 (North side) 27/02/50 Church of St Peter and St Paul
GV II*
Church. C14 west tower; nave, north aisle and north chapel 1525-29; south aisle and south chapel 1534-35; south porch 1539; chancel 1545. Restored 1870-71 by Henry Perkin and 1891 by EF Bishop. Flint and pebble with ashlar dressings and some brick. Lead roofs. EXTERIOR: 3-stage tower supported by diagonal buttresses on a flushwork-panelled base course. West doorway with moulded jambs under a square hoodmould carved with shields and quatrefoils in the spandrels. 3-light Perpendicular west window, cinquefoiled ringing chamber openings and 2-light renewed Perpendicular bell openings. Crenellated parapet. Polygonal stair turret to south. South porch of brick and flint, with 3 moulded arched openings straddling pathway, those to east and west rebuilt 1952. 2-light Perpendicular east and west porch windows. Aisles with 3-light Perpendicular windows, those to east and west ends of 4 lights. Penultimate bay of south aisle with blocked 4-centred doorway. Aisles with diagonal east and west buttresses, stepped buttresses to flanks, crenellated parapets. East ends of aisles flush with chancel east wall, former with 4-light C19 Perpendicular windows, latter with 5-light C19 Perpendicular window. Early C20 north vestry of one storey under crenellated parapet. Moulded north aisle doorway. INTERIOR: tall tower arch with polygonal responds and a chamfer and hollow-chamfered arch. West gallery created 1840 by Robert Appleton from 6 bays of screen dado with cusped and traceried panels with texts. 5-bay arcades of quatrefoil piers with keel mouldings in diagonals; high polygonal bases, polygonal capitals and moulded arches. 10-bay nave roof built as a replica in 1934: arched braces to collars, 2 tiers of butt purlins on basket-arched braces. Pitched aisle roofs with roll-moulded principal beams, to north mainly C16, to south mainly C19. Elaborate octagonal pulpit of 1632 by John Garrard: tapering pedestal base; arcaded panels to main body with strapwork separated by strapwork muntins at corners over rich strapwork aprons; overpanels each with carved fish and vine trails in high relief and plain cornice on fretwork consoles. Curving
stairs have irontwist balusters and ramped handrail. C15 octagonal font: plain stem, bowl with alternating panels depicting lions and angels bearing shields. C17 Readers' Desk: 4 by 2 arcaded panels decorated with dog tooth, strapwork frieze and cornice. MONUMENTS: to George Crabbe, the poet, d.1832: marble plinth with bust, by Thomas Thurlow, made 1847. South chapel: monument to Lady Henrietta Vernon, d.1786: sarcophagus behind drapery folds; dark marble obelisk above against which female figure leans upon an urn under flying angel. Chancel and south chapel with late C15 poppyheads to benches. 2 brasses at east end of nave, one of 1519, and other palimpsests. (Blythe R: Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul, Aldeburgh, Suffolk: Southwold: 1988-; BOE: Pevsner N: Suffolk, 2nd Edition: Harmondsworth: 1974-: 71-2).
Listing NGR: TM4635156851
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460495
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blythe, R, Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul Aldeburgh Suffolk, (1988)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 71-72
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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