Shropham, Norfolk

SS Peter & Paul, locked, keyholder listed, was not on my visit list but as I passed it on my way to Larling I stopped to have a look. It's a big building and rather attractive in a maiden aunt sort of way, the location, however, is stunning. Having found it locked I peered through the windows and decided it was not worthwhile tracking down the keys - a sensible decision as it meant I got to access Larling.

ST PETER. E.E. N doorway with stiff-leaf capitals and a hood-mould with dog-tooth. E. E. also the N arcade of four bays with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches. Clerestory of circular windows with cusped quatrefoils. Perp W tower with chequerwork up the buttresses. Perp chancel with shields at the foot of the buttresses and extremely attractive sedilia and piscina. Crocketed ogee arches. Shields inside the little vaults. Close panel tracery above the arches. The church contains a few puzzling details. The slab with four-petalled-flower tracery in the nave on the N side is probably a re-set sound-hole. The two-light window from the E end of the N aisle to the nave can be hardly anything but a squint. Nave roof with arched braces and tie-beams, chancel roof with arched braces without tie-beams. Embattled wall-plate. - FONT. With small heads supporting the embattled bowl. - FONT COVER. Elementary Jacobean. - SCREEN (under the tower). C14. With shafts instead of mullions, carrying intersected arches. Simple flowing tracery. - PLATE. Chalice (Norwich) 1567-8; Paten, 1597 (1567?); Chalice (London) c.1620-30; Paten (London) 1727.

Mee missed it.

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