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St Peter

St Peter

Strumpshaw

Norfolk

I Parish church, mainly of C14

Architectural Features

C15 with some C19 rebuilding.

C15 west tower with diagonal western buttresses with flushwork panels.

C13 Priest's doorway with restored arch.

Good square headed screen, probably early C15 with panel tracery above crocketted arches : four bays on each side of central arched opening.

Evidence remains that the screen originally had westward projections to flank nave altars, as at Ranworth (q.v.) In the chancel south wall a stepped dropped cill sedilia and a good double piscina with trefoiled heads and a small dragon carved in one of its stiff-leaf stops.

Some notable wall monuments : Catharine Nelson +1789

Octagonal font, C15, bowl carved with alternating roses and shields, corbel heads supporting bowl with four seated lions against the stem.