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Latitude: 52.6278 / 52°37'40"N
Longitude: 1.2926 / 1°17'33"E
OS Eastings: 622932
OS Northings: 308426
OS Grid: TG229084
Mapcode National: GBR W8V.RS
Mapcode Global: WHMTM.T6PT
Plus Code: 9F43J7HV+42
Entry Name: Church of St Peter Mancroft
Listing Date: 26 February 1954
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1210490
English Heritage Legacy ID: 229591
ID on this website: 101210490
Location: St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2
County: Norfolk
District: Norwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Mancroft
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Norwich
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Norwich St Peter, Mancroft with St John Maddermarket
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Church building Gothic architecture
TG 2208 SE, 22/817
ST. PETER'S STREET (east side)
Church of St Peter Mancroft
26.02.54
GV
I
Parish Church. C15. Ashlar faced and flushwork. Lead roofs. West tower.
Nave and chancel in one. North and south aisles and porches. North and
south transepts. Three-storey east vestry.
3-stage tower with five stages of
set-back buttresses:- North, south and west ground-floor openings and
inside west doorway. Tierceron vault inside with central bell-hoist hole.
Extravagant use of statue niches, blind arcading and flushwork on tower.
Perpendicular 5-light west window with 2-centre arch and 3-light belfry
windows. Polygonal corner turrets and late C19 spirelet. 6-bay nave with
4-light windows having 2-centre arches. 2-storeyed north porch with
shafted outer doorway and niche above. Lierne vault inside. Single-storey
south porch. 3-bay chancel with 3-light windows. Single-bay transepts.
Continuous base-frieze of flushwork with stone shields. Large 7-light
east window repaired in 1648 and flanked by polygonal corner turrets.
Seventeen clerestory windows.
INTERIOR:- arcade piers with four shafts and small
hollow diagonals. Double order 2-centre arches. Tall tower arch. Fine
hammer-beam roof with long wall-posts between the clerestory windows
supported on corbels. The hammer beams are concealed by ribbed coving.
The aisle roofs are arch-braced with carved spandrels. Brick-built
under-croft beneath the north transept. Timber font canopy on four square
supports with crocketed super-structure.
Listing NGR: TG2293208426
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