Architectural Features
C14 nave and north and south aisles with six-bay arcades with octagonal piers and double-hollow-chamfered arches, tall tower and chancel arches.
Large four-stage Perpendicular west tower circa 1400-50, with flushwork at base, and west doorway with flanking niches and panelled frieze above.
Late C15 south porch.
C14 Sedilia and Piscina with crocketed ogee arch.
C15 octagonal font with carved panels.
The Grade I listed parish church of SS Peter and Paul > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031804 is situated on an elevation above the marketplace, in the centre of Fakenham, a Georgian Market town. It is believed that an earlier Saxon church stood on this site but the church as we see it today dates mainly from the 14th and 15th centuries. Major restoration work was carried out in Victorian times and much of the church interior dates from this time. The 15th century octagonal baptismal font is one of the church's original features. The chancel screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031817 is a century older but was much restored in 1864. The only medieval glass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031825 is contained in a roundel set into the westernmost window on the nave north wall. All other stained glass dates from the 19th century > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031813 or later > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2031824.
C14 Decorated screen much restored in C19.
Pedestal poor-box dated 1665.