Nominal: 942.5 Hz Weight: 626 lbs Diameter: 33" Bell 1 of 6
Founded by Brend (generic) 1592
Dove Bell ID: 3801 Tower ID: 11417 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Knapton: St Peter and St Paul's
Diocese of Norwich
Church, 626156
http://www.knaptonsangels.co.uk/Overview
Grid reference: TG 307 341
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Explore inside the church Church open regularly Grade I listed building Visitor parking nearby Toilets nearby or inside the church On a footpath, trail or cycle route Angel Roof Bell Ringing
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 446 m²
Exterior Description
Early C14 north-west tower and chancel, nave remodelled C15 when chancel altered. Restored 1882 by Sir G.G. Scott. Flint with ashlar dressings, the chancel rendered. Nave roof of lead, chancel of plain tiles. 3 stage unbuttressed tower with 2-light Y tracery C19 west window. Pointed hollow chamfered ringing chamber light above. 2-light belfry windows below crenellated parapet. Weathervane of cockerel and pennant. 4-light cusped intersecting nave west window of early C14 below 3-light Perpendicular window under 4- centred arch. Diagonal buttresses to nave corners, stepped to flanks. Gabled south porch with double chamfered opening below hood mould on label stops. Above arch stepped 3 bay ogee statuary niches with finials. 2-light cusped side lights. Inner south door with undercut and wave moulded jambs and arch below hood mould which terminates in King and Queen head stops. 3 nave windows north and south, all restored : ogeed lights and supermullions. Chancel with diagonal eastern buttresses and lit from south through 2 3-light Perpendicular windows. Between them C19 gabled flint porch covers priests' door. Dentil eaves cornice also C19. 3-light reticulated east window. C19 gabled vestry abuts north chancel wall to east of 2 2-light C14 Decorated mouchette windows.
As lsited on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
Double chamfered chancel arch. Double hammerbeam nave roof documented 1504 in 12 trusses. Lower hammerbeams carried on arched braces dropping to wall posts with pierced tracery spandrels. Against wall posts are painted carved prophets below cusped and sub-cusped pinnacled canopies, most figures decapitated. At base of wall posts a flight of angels with spread wings dating from 1882 (all other details of 1504). Moulded hammerbeams terminate in carved and painted angels bearing musical instruments or scrolls. Hammerposts are moulded, again with pierced tracery spandrels to the principal rafters. Arched braces rise to second tier of hammerbeams with flight of painted angels bearing scrolls and shields. Second tier of hammerposts with pierced tracery spandrels as before. Arched braces extend upwards to moulded collars. King posts from centre of collars to ridge piece. Against King posts stand painted angels to east and west. 2 tiers moulded butt purlins. Wall plate linked to wall posts by carved arched braces. Boarded ashlaring in 2 tiers, the lower tier coved, both with high relief carvings of angels flanked by decorative shields. In all 160 angels carved into this roof. C13 Purbeck marble octagonal font with bowl supported on central column and 8 subsidiary orbital columns. Each face of bowl with 2 incised pointed arches. Timber font cover 1704. Octagonal with ogee canopy standing on 8 turned balusters. Beneath canopy a frieze with a Greek palindrome in 8 individual scrolls : NIYON ANOMHMA MH MONAN OYIN (Wash thou, not only my face, but my transgression). Early C16 chancel screen of 4 bays right and left of cusped opening. Traceried dado and ogee traceried lights, all much restored. Founder's tomb recess with tomb slab at south-east nave corner below stilted undercut arch. To left a piscina. Late C16 combined reading desk and chair in chancel with arcaded panels and poppyhead bench ends to chair. Flat sedilia and angle piscina standing upon fluted column below ogee head with 2 encircled quatrefoils. At west end of nave 9 C13 tomb slabs.
As listed on Historic England website
Bells
Nominal: 1578 Hz Weight: 377 lbs Diameter: 24.25" Bell 2 of 6
Founded by Whitechapel Bell Foundry 1990
Dove Bell ID: 27384 Tower ID: 11417 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1411.5 Hz Weight: 406 lbs Diameter: 25.5" Bell 3 of 6
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1932
Dove Bell ID: 27385 Tower ID: 11417 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1258.5 Hz Weight: 458 lbs Diameter: 27.25" Bell 4 of 6
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1932
Dove Bell ID: 27386 Tower ID: 11417 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1177.5 Hz Weight: 498 lbs Diameter: 28" Bell 5 of 6
Founded by Gillett & Johnston 1932
Dove Bell ID: 27387 Tower ID: 11417 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1068.5 Hz Weight: 489 lbs Diameter: 30.25" Bell 6 of 6
Founded by John I Brend 1565
Dove Bell ID: 27388 Tower ID: 11417 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TG 307 341
Burial and War Grave Information
The church/building is consecrated.
The churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
The churchyard is closed for burial by order in council.
The date of the burial closure order is 23/09/1859
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
Churchyard Structures
Grave
Commander Jeaffreson Miles
War Memorial
Village war memorial
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
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