Monument record ADB 018 - Church of St Peter and Paul

1086: Two churches and 60 acres listed under Aldeburgh in the Domesday Survey.
Church of St Peter and Paul. Consists of: C14 tower, 1525/9 nave, N aisle, S porch. 1545 chancel. 1597 chancel is described as `utterlye ruinated'. C15/ C16 main structure. 1643 visitation by puritan, William Dowsing. 1853 chancel enlarged. 1881/91 restoration (S3).
Details in (S1)(S2).
Archaeological Assesment (2001) observed vestry wall and articulated human remains within coffins in two trenches opened to the north of the vestry wall. (S4)

Two small trenches were excavated to the north of the existing vestry in order to record the ground conditions in the area of a proposed extension. No structural features were recorded, other than the concrete footing of the standing building, with in situ burials encountered at a depth of 0.8m in both trenches. The sand subsoil was found to occur at a depth of 1.5m below present ground level. Finds included iron coffin furniture (nails & handles), a shroud pin, a tooled limestone block and fragments of glazed medieval floor-tile. Included in the Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History annual round up of individual finds and discoveries for 2001 (S5).