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St Peter

St Peter

Plumstead

Norfolk

Tile and slate roofs.

Architectural Features

Largely post-medieval 3-light window with curious intersecting tracery

Brass in floor of north aisle to Henry Pagrave d. 1516 and wife.

St Peter's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544129 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544135 is located on an elevation beside the road, surrounded by fields. Declared redundant in 1969 and earmarked for demolition when parishioners in cooperation with the Norfolk Churches Trust saved the building which is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church houses several elaborate monuments, mainly to the Palgraves > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544144 who were Lords of the Manor until the mid-18th century. A C14 double piscina > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544159 can be seen in the chancel south wall and the original font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544177  is still in place at the west end.   An ornate wheel design > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544137 can be seen on the nave floor - its purpose is undetermined.

Marble wall monument in chancel to Margaret Pope d. 1621 with angels holding back curtain of baldachino under which she kneels

St Peter's church > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544129 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544135 is located on an elevation beside the road, surrounded by fields. Declared redundant in 1969 and earmarked for demolition when parishioners in cooperation with the Norfolk Churches Trust saved the building which is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. The church houses several elaborate monuments, mainly to the Palgraves > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544144 who were Lords of the Manor until the mid-18th century. A C14 double piscina > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544159 can be seen in the chancel south wall and the original font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544177 is still in place at the west end. An ornate wheel design > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1544137 can be seen on the nave floor - its purpose is undetermined.

© Evelyn Simak

Tomb chest monument to John Palgrave d. 1611

three small allegorical figures topped by inscription

Marble monument to Sir Austin Palgrave d. 1639 and wife.

C17 altar rail.