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Saints Peter and Paul

Saints Peter And Paul

Salle

Norfolk

4/126 Church of Saints Peter and Paul 10.5.61 I GV Parish Church, built in the first half of the C15, of flint with stone dressings and ashlar and lead roofs.

C15C16C17STAINED GLASSBRASSFONTROOD SCREENANGELSMISERICORDSPULPITMEDIEVAL

Architectural Features

ANGELS

West door with angels with censors in the spandrels and above a frieze With heraldry and 3 niches.

ANGELS

Roof with short arch braces, 2 purlins per side with angels at the intersection of principals.

C15

C15 ringing gallery with arched and traceried timber balustrade and crane supporting incomplete canopy.

TG1124 : Salle: St Peter and St Paul Church: Inscription at the base of the font 3
C15C17FONT

Seven sacrament font c.1437 C15 pulpit on single octagonal stem, adapted into a triple-decker arrangement c.1611, complete With back panel and testor.

TG1124 : Salle: St Peter and St Paul Church: Inscription at the base of the font 3

© Michael Garlick

MISERICORDS

Stalls have arm rests with heads, faces and monsters, with misericords of flowers and faces.

C17

Altar rails with turned balusters c.1637.

C15STAINED GLASS

Fragments of C15 stained glass in east and south transept windows.

Brass to John Brigge (d. 1454), a so-called cadaver brass, depicting a skeleton in a shroud. Like its neighbour - St Agnes' church in Cawston, the church of SS Peter & Paul is a large building, best viewed from a distance > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/756199. The church was built in the 15th century by a group of wealthy families in the parish. Carved angels and bosses adorn the roof > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871494 which has retained some of its original colour. The C16 rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871495 is not as well preserved, however, and some of its panels appear to never have been painted. The seven sacraments font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871515 dates from the 15th century as does its tall canopy which is held in place by a big crane. The pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871497 is C15 but the back panel and tester are Jacobean. There are misericords and stalls with carved animals > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871499 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871502 in the chancel and benches with poppyheads in the nave. Medieval stained glass can be found in a number of windows and there are many brasses (one seen here). The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/salle/salle.htm
C15BRASS

Several good C15 brasses commemorating the churches' patrons. (C. L. S. Linell Salle (Church Guide) Nikolaus Pevsner The Buildings of England Norwich and Sou+h Easts Norfolk.

Brass to John Brigge (d. 1454), a so-called cadaver brass, depicting a skeleton in a shroud. Like its neighbour - St Agnes' church in Cawston, the church of SS Peter & Paul is a large building, best viewed from a distance > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/756199. The church was built in the 15th century by a group of wealthy families in the parish. Carved angels and bosses adorn the roof > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871494 which has retained some of its original colour. The C16 rood screen > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871495 is not as well preserved, however, and some of its panels appear to never have been painted. The seven sacraments font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871515 dates from the 15th century as does its tall canopy which is held in place by a big crane. The pulpit > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871497 is C15 but the back panel and tester are Jacobean. There are misericords and stalls with carved animals > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871499 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/871502 in the chancel and benches with poppyheads in the nave. Medieval stained glass can be found in a number of windows and there are many brasses (one seen here). The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/salle/salle.htm

© Evelyn Simak