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St Peter and St Paul

St Peter And St Paul

Knapton

Norfolk

Early C14 north-west tower

Architectural Features

chancel, nave remodelled C15 when chancel altered.

Nave roof of lead, chancel of plain tiles.

4-light cusped intersecting nave west window of early C14 below 3-light Perpendicular window under 4- centred arch.

C19 gabled vestry abuts north chancel wall to east of 2 2-light C14 Decorated mouchette windows.

Double hammerbeam nave roof documented 1504 in 12 trusses.

Against wall posts are painted carved prophets below cusped and sub-cusped pinnacled canopies, most figures decapitated.

At base of wall posts a flight of angels with spread wings dating from 1882 Moulded hammerbeams terminate in carved and painted angels bearing musical instruments or scrolls.

Arched braces rise to second tier of hammerbeams with flight of painted angels bearing scrolls and shields.

Against King posts stand painted angels to east and west.

Wall plate linked to wall posts by carved arched braces.

Boarded ashlaring in 2 tiers, the lower tier coved, both with high relief carvings of angels flanked by decorative shields.

In all 160 angels carved into this roof.

C13 Purbeck marble octagonal font with bowl supported on central column and 8 subsidiary orbital columns.

Timber font cover 1704.

Early C16 chancel screen of 4 bays right and left of cusped opening.

Late C16 combined reading desk and chair in chancel with arcaded panels and poppyhead bench ends to chair.

At west end of nave 9 C13 tomb slabs.