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St Peter

St Peter

Mid Suffolk

Suffolk

CREETING ST. PETER THE LANE TM 05 NE 4/70 Church of St. Peter - 9-12-55 - I Parish church, mediaeval.

Architectural Features

Flint rubble with freestone dressings, the nave largely plastered, with some mediaeval plaster on the north side.

Some areas of Norman flint walling

chamfered round-arched north doorway with C14/C15 plank door.

Chancel has much plain early C14 work: pointed south doorway, 3-light intersecting traceried east window, simple pointed piscina and ogee-headed side windows.

Later C14 work includes:- tower with double- chamfered west doorway, 2-light belfry windows and lion-head gargoyles

Late C15 nave side windows and chancel arch with moulded shafts.

Restored C16 pulpit, unusually with 7 sides, enriched with tracery and twin crocketted pinnacles.

TM0857 : Creeting St. Peter, St. Peter's Church: Detail of font, thought to be c15th 6

Good and delicately carved C15 limestone octagonal font, with angels beneath the bowl and lions supporting the stem.

TM0857 : Creeting St. Peter, St. Peter's Church: Detail of font, thought to be c15th 6

© Michael Garlick

Fine C15 wall painting of St. Christopher on north nave wall with inscription and broad boarder of red, white and blue.

Vestry almost or totally rebuilt in C19 but with a possibly C14 window.