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St Peter

St Peter

West Suffolk

Suffolk

To east and west 2 C15 2-light windows with cusped heads to lights and flat arches.

Architectural Features

The north-east and south-east angles of the nave have Saxon long-and-short work in the quoins.

C14 gabled diagonal buttresses on north-west and south-west.

The nave has 4 C14 2-light windows with cusped heads to lights: 3 have unusual triangular heads.

Blocked C13 north doorway.

The south doorway has a C19 door with reused C17 wrought iron hinges

a ring handle with the boss in the form of a mask, said to be C14.

3 2-light windows on south side 2 with remains of medieval stained glass, some grisaille: the westernmost, cusped, C14, with a small blocked low- side window below it: in the centre, 2 C13 lancets with late C19 stained glass, the easternmost C19 altered.

3-light C14 east window with stained glass of 1866/7.

Font, benches, pulpit, lectern and chancel furnishings all of that date.

Nave paved with C18 tiles in cream, red and black.

Plain C17 roof: arch-braced, 2 rows of butt purlins, no ridge-piece or tie-beams.

Wide internal splays to all windows: fragments of old glass in heads of lights.

Restored C15 screen, with remains of original carving and colouring.

A late C17 holy table, and 2 high-backed carved chairs of the same date.

On west wall of lowest stage, a 2-light C14 window, with a tiny slit window on its north side which lights the internal stair-turret.

A small rectangular window on each face of the second stage, and a 2-light C14 window on the north, south and west faces of the top stage.

In the base of the tower, 4 carved C13 sepulchral slabs with crosses, one attached to the north wall, the other 3 along the west wall.

Graded I for Saxon work and remains of screen.