Description

ELMSETT CHURCH ROAD
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5377
Church of St Peter
TM 04 NE 39/327 235.1.58
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A small C13, C14 and C15 church without aisles. The west tower has C13
lancet windows, diagonal buttresses and a castellated parapet. The nave
and chancel are faced in cement and the south of the nave has small blocked
Norman windows (External). The east window is C14 and there are C14
and C15 windows on the north and south. The south porch has a "cruck",
arched entrance way. The interior features include a Norman square font
of Purbeck marble, a C17 octagonal panelled and carved pulpit and a later
C17 communion rail (3 sided). There is a monument to Edward Sherland
(d 1609) with a kneeling alabaster effigy (coloured).

Listing NGR: TM0588347205

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17542256

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)