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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Heydon

Norfolk

Fabric mainly C14

Architectural Features

C15 with C19 additions.

C15 square west tower in galleted flint

C14 3-light west windows to aisles.

Nave clerestorey of four 2-light C15 windows with quatrefoils in square surrounds between openings

3-light C15 windows to south aisle with staged buttresses dividing bays on south wall.

C15 2- storey south porch with 2-light square-headed east and west windows unglazed.

South wall of chancel has two 3-light C15 windows with segmental brick arches.

below the cill, three pedimented panels with memorial tablets to the Bulwer family.

North porch C14 with single light east and west windows with cusped heads and square drip moulds.

Interior: C15 roofs to nave and chancel

C14 north and south arcades of four bays, quatrefoil piers with keeled fillets and double-chamfered arches.

Screen, donated 1480 by John Dynne, retains much original colour, decoration and lettering, tall one-light divisions, cusped arches with flower-finials

C15 pulpit on wineglass stem set on a section of stone octagonal shaft with fleuron decoration

C17 backboard with relief carving of the Last Supper, octagonal tester.

Pulpit hexagonal with traceried panels.

C17 family box-pew at east end of nave, against screen.

C17 and C18 memorial slabs in chancel floor, including brass inscription to Dorothy, daughter of John and Frances Castell In the east end of the north aisle, a massive memorial slab to Erasmus Earle, 1690 surrounded by iron railings.

Cartouche on north wall above gives the date of Earle's death as 1667.

Good wall monument to John Steward Bachelour on north side of tower arch.

early C17 panelled reredos, re-used.

C14 wall paintings on north aisle wall and in south-east chapel.

Font C13, a large round tub on an octagonal base.