Church of St Peter Parmentergate
CHURCH OF ST PETER PARMENTERGATE, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1372808
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter Parmentergate
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER PARMENTERGATE, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1372808
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter Parmentergate
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER PARMENTERGATE, KING STREET
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 PARMENTERGATE, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 23391 08373
Details
TG 2308 SW KING STREET (west side) 23/437 26.2.54. Church of St. Peter Parmentergate. - I Former parish church now redundant. Late C15 and early C16. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Slate roof to nave and plain tile to chancel. West tower, nave and chancel. South porch. East vestry. 3 stage tower with diagonal buttresses. West door with 2-centre arch, carved spandrels and shield frieze above. 2 3-light windows and square traceried sound holes above. Crenellated parapet. 4 bay nave C.1490 with 4-light Perpendicular windows having 2-centre arches. 2 storied porch:- outer doorway with attached shafts and a 2-centre arch with spandrels. 2-light window above doorway. The east window on the north side of the nave is partly blocked by a semi-octagonal rood turret of C.1510. 2 bay chancel C.1510 with flat intersecting tracery beneath 4-centre arch. 4-light Perpendicular east window with 2-centre arch. 2 storied vestry with 2 3-light and 2 2-light lancet windows beneath square heads. Central statue niche. Tower arch and tall wide chancel arch with attached shaft and 2-centre arch. Nave roof:- butt-purlin with the tower attached, arch-braces springing from wall-posts. Tomb of Richard Berney, 1623, in chancel:- 2 recumbent figures beneath canopy supported by 4 columns. Arms of Hobart and Berney above. Victorian screen to chancel has reset C15 tracery and figures.
Listing NGR: TG2339108373
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229198
- 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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