Church of St Peter and St Paul, Bergh Apton

Heritage listing

Details This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 28/09/2020 to correct the name, update the address and to reformat the text to current standards TM 39 NW 5/17 BERGH APTON SCHOOL ROAD (south side) Church of St Peter and St Paul (Formerly listed under CHURCH ROAD, south side) 5.9.60 II* Parish church. Some fabric of C14 and C15, but the church much rebuilt and restored c1837 by John Brown of Norwich. Flint, partly rendered and ashlared, with limestone and brick dressings; slated roofs. West tower, nave, chancel, north and south porches, north and south transepts. Fabric of west tower largely medieval with staged diagonal western buttresses. Plain louvred bell openings with stone chamfered reveals and pointed arches. Embattled parapet of chequerwork brick and flint, brick corner finials and roll-top copings. Two-light west window, late C14. C19 south porch with two-light windows to east and west with square heads and drip moulds. Ogee headed niche with figure of Christ over entrance arch; gable parapet with cross finial. South nave windows of two lights with 'Y' tracery. Gabled south transept with three-light south window with intersecting tracery. On the east wall of the transept two memorial slabs to Edward Bound d.1801 and his wife Elizabeth d.1799 and to Elizabeth Bound d.1792. South wall of chancel has one plain semi-circular headed window to the west and a central priests' door set in a small gabled projection. Coped gable parapets to east wall and at junction of nave and chancel. Shallow pilaster- buttresses to east gable wall. Large single-light east window with semi-circular head and continuous roll moulding. Small niche above east window. Two semi-circular headed windows on north side of chancel; north transept as south, with three-light north window

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.