St Peter And St Paul
East Harling
Norfolk
TL 9986 HARLING CHURCH ROAD (North Side) 10/31 Church of St. Peter and St. Paul 16/7/58 - I Parish church. c.1300 with sporadic building programmes to c.l450, restored 1878-9.
Architectural Features
Tower c.1300 of 3 stages with angle buttresses.
2-light arched belfry windows below pierced crenellated parapet of c.1450.
Lead spire, also mid C15 supported on 8 flying buttresses each with crocketted finials forming corona.
Flat buttresses and mid C15 south porch with diagonal buttresses and tiers of flushwork blind tracery panels to south and east.
Clerestory mid C15 of 9 3-light windows under depressed arches with continuous hood mould.
Diagonal eastern buttresses and 5-light east window of 1450-80 with super mullions and 2 crenellated transoms.
North chapel added 1460's necessitating relocation north-east buttress : depressed 3-light window to east with blocked parvis lights above and on north face.
Complex moulded tower arch with octagonal responds, chancel arch late C14 as arcades.
Hammerbeam roof of 10 trusses dropping on arched braces to wall posts on corbels carved in form of angels.
These roofs mid C15.
Tower gallery of early C17 with turned balusters
moulded handrail above heavy C15 bressummer.
Octagonal C14 font with tracery panels on stem and quatrefoils on bowl.
TL9886 : East Harling, St. Peter and St. Pauls' Church: Medieval font and c17th cover
2 fragments of rood screen of c.1500 at west end of nave each of 3½ bays, painted and with tracery panels.
TL9886 : East Harling, St. Peter and St. Pauls' Church: Dado of the lost rood screen
South nave chapel screen to aisle C15.
C14 parclose screen divides chapel from nave in 3 square bays each with 3 lights divided by circular muntins below early Perpendicular lozenge tracery heads and crenellated top rail.
East window glass is complete of 1480 : 20 panels below head depict Annunciation to Pentecost cycle and figures of Sir William Chamberlayne and Sir Robert Lingfield , who donated the glass.
Monuments in south- east nave chapel.
To east Sir Robert Harling : quatrefoiled tomb chest with surround in form of ogeed canopy cusped and sub-cusped with leaf decoration and symbolic figures.
Monuments in chancel.
Between chancel and north chapel to Sir William Chamberlayne : Panelled tomb chest with 4-centred canopy with vaulted ceiling and panelled sides, the sides with niches for figures.
On south wall opposite is identical tombe of Sir Thomas Lovell 6 C15 stalls with misercords and figured arm rests.
Fragment of wall painting in north nave wall.
Good painted restoration Royal Arms of Charles II dated 1660.