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Saint Peter and Saint Paul

Saint Peter And Saint Paul

Shernborne

Norfolk

Norman and Early English, C11

Architectural Features

C13 evidence, largely rebuilt 1898 by H.J. Green, the Diocesan architect for Norwich, with Sir Reginald Blomfield, an architect much employed on the Sandringham Estate, as consultant. - Flint and carstone rubble, free-stone dressings, plain-tiled nave and chancel roofs, lead south aisle roofs.

Interior has 2 bay south arcade with C13 Early English or later central octagonal pier and 2 half-octagonal respond piers, with moulded bases, renewed higher up.

TF7132 : Shernborne: St. Peter and St. Paul church: The Norman font north east face detail

Font, stone, Norman, has base plinth, shaft with 4 piers with bases and capitals, square bowl with slightly bowed sides, angle piers with bases and capitals.

TF7132 : Shernborne: St. Peter and St. Paul church: The Norman font north east face detail

© Michael Garlick

Brass: Sir Thomas Shernborne and wife

Pulpit 1898, pews 1919, east window stained 1924.