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St Peter

St Peter

Lowestoft

Suffolk

LOWESTOFT TM59NW GUNTON CHURCH LANE, Gunton 914-1/1/92 (West side) 13/12/49 Church of St Peter II* Parish Church.

Architectural Features

C12, re-worked c1340, restored 1700, 1790 and 1901.

Plain tile roofs.

3-stage round C12 tower lit through a pointed lancet to lower stage and a rounded lancet to ringing chamber.

Four 2-light C14 ogeed belfry windows with one reticulation unit each.

Inner south door has one order of Norman zig-zag.

The main wall is pierced by (east to west) a C13 pointed lancet, a round-headed C12 lancet and a C19 pointed lancet.

Next west is a Norman north doorway: 2 orders of engaged shafts with block capitals

Round-arched early Norman tower arch with minimal long-and-short quoins.