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St Mary

St Mary

Burgh St. Peter

Norfolk

Fabric mainly early C14 with C16 tower base and nave roof.

Architectural Features

West tower constructed in a series of stepped square brick stages, probably c.1800, on an early C16 base of red brick and flint diaper work.

Plain nave doorway, C13 with double chamfered arch and reveal.

Plain C13 doorway in north wall of nave

Interior: C15 nave roof with principal rafters arch- braced on to wall posts

pendant posts with carved bosses.

C19 screen with central cross and figures on pedestals.

In the south chancel walla piscina with shelf and petalled bowl and triple sedilia with cusped heads and embattled cornice, C14, but heads may be restored.

TM4993 : St Mary, Burgh St Peter, Norfolk - Font

Font, C14: octagonal bowl with alternating panels of shields and roses on traceried grounds, head corbels supporting bowl and eight engaged shafts around stem.

TM4993 : St Mary, Burgh St Peter, Norfolk - Font

© John Salmon

Some fragments of medieval glass in north-west chancel window.