Church of St Peter and St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, DEREHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342579
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, DEREHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342579
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter and St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, DEREHAM 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, DEREHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Scarning
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 95409 12197
Details
TF 91 SE SCARNING DEREHAM ROAD (north side)
6/28 Church of St Peter 30/5/60 and Paul
- I
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dress- ings. Slate and plaintile roofs. West tower; aisleless nave with south porch. Chancel with vestry to south. C15 west tower with diagonal buttresses. Flush- work panelling to plinth and buttresses. Canted stair turret to south. Traceried 3-light Perpendicular west window. 2 sound holes with traceried diagonal motifs. 2-light ovolo-moulded traceried bell-openings: probably post-Medieval. Crow-stepped parapet with 2 surviving Evangelist symbols at corners. 6 3-light Perpendicular nave windows. Central pair of windows with pairs of double-cusped soufflets. Pair of moulded nave doorways. Heavily restored chancel with 3 2-light cusped Y-traceried windows and a 3-light east window in Geometric style. Unusually large vestry with 2 2-light cusped square-headed windows in gable-end. Porch with dying mouldings to entrance arch and 2-light cusped Y-traceried side windows. Interior. Continuous double-ogee moulded outer order to tower arch. Continuous wave-moulded outer order to chancel arch. Both arches with semicircular responds. Cusped piscina in chancel. Late-Medieval 7-bay chancel screen with tracery, crocketting and mainly modern paint. C13 font with bulbous circular bowl surrounded by shafts with disproportionate stiff leaf capitals. Larger corner shafts with bell capitals supported in turn on octagonal shafts surrounding an octagonal stem. Tall font cover in form of crocketted spire.
Listing NGR: TF9540912197
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220775
- 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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