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St Peter

St Peter

Monk Soham

Suffolk

Medieval, restored 1860.

Architectural Features

Early C14 square tower in 2 stages

Nave walls are substantially early C14, with contemporary moulded north and south doorways.

In C15 the walls were heightened and 3-light windows inserted, 3 to each side.

C15 porch, formerly of high quality but much of the decorative work now lost or badly decayed.

enriched hoodmould on mask stops, the spandrels formerly carved.

Early C14 chancel has unaltered fenestration: regularly-spaced lancet windows with pointed trefoil heads, 3 to south, 4 to north.

Nave has C15 8-bay arch-braced roof with false hammerbeams

East splay of south east nave window has a C15 canopied image niche.

C15 octagonal font, the bowl panels carved with the Seven Sacraments and the crucifixion

against the base are seated figures and the Signs of the Evangelists.

All the carving is defaced.

Restored pulpit, dated 1604.

13 medieval benches with poppyhead ends at west end of nave.

Tower screen incorporates C14 tracery, perhaps from a former rood screen.

Large C14 iron-bound chest in nave.