Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1352072
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09216/08
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1352072
- Date first listed:
- 09-Dec-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, THE 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, THE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Creeting St. Peter
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0807957693
Details
CREETING ST. PETER THE LANE
TM 05 NE
4/70 Church of St. Peter
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9-12-55
- I
Parish church, mediaeval. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, north
vestry. Flint rubble with freestone dressings, the nave largely plastered,
with some mediaeval plaster on the north side. Plaintiled roofs; the nave has
C19 fleur-de-lys ridge finials. Tower roof flat behind embattled parapets.
Some areas of Norman flint walling; chamfered round-arched north doorway with
C14/C15 plank door. Chancel has much plain early C14 work: pointed south
doorway, 3-light intersecting traceried east window, simple pointed piscina
and ogee-headed side windows. Later C14 work includes:- tower with double-
chamfered west doorway, 2-light belfry windows and lion-head gargoyles; nave
side windows, south porch and south doorway with plank door and ironmongery;
tower doorway and door. Late C15 nave side windows and chancel arch with
moulded shafts. Restored C16 pulpit, unusually with 7 sides, enriched with
tracery and twin crocketted pinnacles. Good and delicately carved C15
limestone octagonal font, with angels beneath the bowl and lions supporting
the stem. Fine C15 wall painting of St. Christopher on north nave wall with
inscription and broad boarder of red, white and blue. Vestry almost or
totally rebuilt in C19 but with a possibly C14 window. C19 roofs: in the
chancel with scissor-braced coupled rafters, in the nave with arch-braced
collar beam trusses.
Listing NGR: TM0807957693
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 279319
- 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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