Monument record LSY 004 - Church of St Peter

The church of St Peter is within the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, the archdeaconry of Ipswich, the deanery of Hadleigh. Status: vicarage (S1). The structure is: chancel, nave, S aisle, S porch. The N window of the nave is C14, it is a 2-light square-headed traceried window with an intersected top like the famous C13 piscinas of Jesus and St John's colleges, Cambridge. It has the mutilated remains of canopied niches on the salient angles of both jambs. A second window of the same type further W is blocked up. The nave roof is C14 and consists of arch-braced tie-beams with king posts and a braced collar runner. The font is Early English dating from C13 or very early C14. It is stone and square and is supported at the corners by cylindrical pillars with a larger one in the centre. It has intersected arches with, in the spandrils, a circle, an encircled trefoil, a trefoil, etc. Above the arch is part of the pulley used to raise the original font cover. The arcade is C14 and consists of three double-chamfered arches supported by octagon pillars. Slots in the SE pillar indicate that wooden screens once enclosed a chapel, on the wall of which are traces of painted decoration. The W tower was removed in 1836 having partially fallen down, and replaced by a weatherboarded bell turret. The tower had been square, short and embattled with buttresses. The S porch is rude and wooden but it retains the original C14 arched entrance and barge-board (S2).
In 1875 the end of the chancel and the E window were restored (S2).