St Peter

One window as south with hood on C14 head stops.

3 similar nave north windows and blocked doorway with single large roll moulding and hood on head stops, all of early C14.

Early C14 trefoiled piscina in south wall and triple headed corbel table set into chancel wall of similar date.

Octagonal porphyry font 1869.

St Peter's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845887 has its C13 tower offset and located at the west end of the south wall, rather than at the west end of the building > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845894 - a peculiarity that a number of other churches in the area share. The nave was destroyed and the chancel defaced by fire in 1867 and as a consequence not many details of the old church have survived > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845909 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845949. The arched tomb recess in the north nave wall is a C19 copy > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845912. The Victorian font is made of shiny dark Porphyry marble and decorated with an etched symbol of the Holy Trinity. The east window is a memorial to the family of the Rev. Rowland Ingram and is believed to have been designed by Frederick Preedy in 1869 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845923 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845929. Fragments of medieval stained glass have been inset in one of the nave south windows > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/845935. The church is kept locked. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/littleellingham/littleellingham.htm

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