Architectural Features
Tower probably late C14: 4 stages and parapet, diagonal buttresses, some flushwork to buttresses and parapet
Nave south wall with 2 C12 slit windows
2 2-light C15 windows
Simple C15 south porch: knapped flint parapet with stone coping, niche above entrance, stoup to right hand side.
Chancel with one C13 lancet window to north
North aisle added early-mid C16: 3-light windows, 4 late C19 brick buttresses to north wall, late C19 roof (over the old) continuous with the nave.
Good late C15 6-bay arch-braced nave roof, with east-west bracing between both wall posts and ridge posts
wooden chancel arch and roof of 1892: the arch rests on corbels and is richly carved with drop tracery.
C15 octagonal font, the panels defaced but with traces of original colour
Now that the massive ancient tree that had been growing in the churchyard has been felled it is possible to get a view of St Peter's south side > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1887181. The church is of Norman origins. Tower and arcade were added in the 14th century and the nave and aisle windows date from the 16th century. The octagonal baptismal font dates from the 15th century, the pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1887207 is Jacobean. The church's greatest treasure is the Doom > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1887220 - a Last Judgement painting believed to have been made by a monk from Blythburgh in around 1480. Originally it was placed in the upper section of the chancel arch and probably covered up (and forgotten about) during the Protestant reign of Edward VI in 1549. In the course of a late 1800s restoration this whitewashed 'partition' was disassembled and the parts taken out into the churchyard, awaiting demolition. After heavy rainfalls had washed off some of the plaster the underlying paintings became visible and the piece was reassembled, restored and brought back inside the church where it is now displayed on the north wall. Paintings of this type once used to be very common in medieval churches but only very few have survived.
2 simple C15 benches with poppyhead ends in nave
On the north aisle wall is mounted a large oil painting on boards, c.1500
the rood and supporting figures originally attached to the painting have disappeared, and below is a later inscription