St Peter

Holton

Suffolk

C12 round tower with a later bell-chamber stage of brick and flint rubble, with a red brick crenellated parapet.

Architectural Features

C12 core to nave, the south wall re-faced in C19 and with 3 C19 pointed lancet windows.

Fine C12 south nave doorway, unusually call: one order of colonnettes with scallop-carved cushion capitals and cable- moulded shaft rings

Above the doorway is a C12 carved panel depicting an animal in profile.

C15 porch, considerably restored but with its original arched-braced roof.

2-bay chancel with 2-light C15 windows and a Priest's doorway

5-bay arch-braced nave roof, probably C15 but altered and rebuilt at a lower level in mid C19.

3-bay arched-braced chancel roof, the main trusses C15, otherwise much renewed.

Early C15 octagonal font, the bowl with foiled panels carved with alternate blank shields and flowers

the bowl is supported by 8 carved heads and the stem has 8 colonnettes.

The east window has stained glass by Kempe, dated 1899.