Church of St Peter and St Paul

CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1372723
Date first listed:
10-May-1961
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter and St Paul
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1372723
Date first listed:
10-May-1961
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter and St Paul
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER AND ST PAUL, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:
Oulton
National Grid Reference:
TG 13654 28460

Details

TG 12 NW OULTON CHURCH LANE

3/60 Church of St Peter 10-5-61 and St Paul

- II*

Parish church. Fabric mostly C15. Flint with limestone dressings. Main roofs lead-covered, porch plaintiled. West tower, nave, south porch, chancel. Square west tower set slightly south of main church axis; diagonal staged buttresses up to bell stage. C15 2-light west window. 2-light traceried bell-openings. Small window with cusped head below south bell opening. South porch with hollow-chamfered arch on polygonal corbels, defaced headstops. Continuous quadrant mould to outer arch and jambs. Large arched openings in north and south nave walls, marking position of former chapels; openings now infilled with Y-tracery. 2-light square-headed window at south-east corner of nave, tracery infilled with rendered brick. Chancel has north and south 2-light square headed cross-windows with cusped heads to lights, hollow- chamfered mullions and transoms. North-east window blocked with rendered brickwork. Priest's door on south side with cusped and sub-cusped arch, square dripmould, flowers and foliage decoration in spandrels. Diagonal buttresses to east gable with flushwork panels with cusped and crocketted heads. C15 3-light east window. Crudely-built projection at north-east corner of nave, probably to accommodate rood stair. North-east nave window blocked in brick, partly rendered. Staged buttresses with flushwork panels flanking north chapel opening. North doorway blocked in flint. Square-headed 2-light west window to nave with four quatrefoils above ogee-headed lights. Interior: nave roof has arch-braced principals with wallposts to alternative trusses. Roll-moulded purlins and ridge; ridge-pendants with carved bosses. Moulded cornice. Waggon-boarded ceiling to chancel. Piscina in south wall of chancel with cinquefoil head and carved spandrels, petalled bowl. C18 memorial slabs in nave and chancel floor; two memorial brasses, one to Edmund and Katherine Bell (d.1636). Wall monuments in north-east corner of nave to Thomas Bell (d.1755), Coulson Bell (d,1800), Oval tablet to Richard Ladell (d.1802) and others, above north doorway. Wall painting - a fragment depicting a fish, adjoining jamb of north doorway. Hexagonal panelled pulpit on stem, C17. Plain octagonal font bowl on later base.

Listing NGR: TG1365428460

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
228719
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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