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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Swaffham

Norfolk

C14-C15 with C18 and C19 alterations and restorations.

Architectural Features

EXTERIOR: 2-stage tower begun 1485, completed 1507-10 by Master Gyles.

Openwork battlements added 1533, with corner pinnacles.

Aisles with 3-light Perpendicular windows, the north aisle wall rebuilt 1462.

Hammerbeam roof within porch of c1510: 3 bays, carved angels against hammerposts, doubled angels as ridge bosses.

North aisle with early C14 blocked north doorway at west end, blocked mid C14 doorway at east end.

Chancel constructed mid C15.

S aisle with projection for chapel of Corpus Christi, c1490-1500, lit by a 4-light Perpendicular window.

14-bay early C16 double hammerbeam nave roof.

Moulded wall posts on angel corbels.

2 tiers of hammerbeams, each with a carved wooden angel with outspread wings bearing shields.

Brattished and moulded ashlaring in 2 tiers and with carved decoration.

Moulded cambered collars with cresting and ridge struts faced by carved angels.

C16 6-bay arch-braced chancel roof with one tier of moulded butt purlins.

FITTINGS: octagonal Caen stone font of 1851.

2 late C15 chancel stalls: to north with 2 carved figure scenes depicting a woman holding a rosary, first in a shop and then looking out of the door

to south 2 figures of a man with a pack above chained dogs.

MEMORIALS: altar tomb against north chancel wall to John Botewright, d. 1474: tomb chest with 4 shields bearing symbols of Passion, Trinity and Botewright's rebus: 3 boats and 3 augers.

Cusped mid C16 canopy with tracery daggers in spandrels and brattished cornice.

Wall monument to Katherine Steward, d. 1590: pair of Doric columns support strapwork achievement in which is profile representation of deceased kneeling at prayer.

Brass to Sir John Audley, c1530 on south transept pier.