St Peter's is one of seven churches in the parish of Upper Tas Valley All Saints in south Norfolk, ten miles south of Norwich, UK. The full name is St Peter's and St Paul's, commonly known as St Peter's, and this was formerly the parish church for Forncett St Peter. It is an active place of worship and a nationally significant Grade I listed building. Its Anglo-Saxon round tower, built about 1000 AD, is considered one of the best in the country. There are other Anglo-Saxon features. Much of the main building is of later, mainly 14th and 15th century, date. Significant features are: the 1485 Drake tomb, a unique ancient staircase in the tower, carved pew ends, fine ledger slabs in the chancel and nave, good examples of Victorian coloured glass windows, and the ring of six bells. There is a

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • St Peter's is one of seven churches in the parish of Upper Tas Valley All Saints in south Norfolk, ten miles south of Norwich, UK. The full name is St Peter's and St Paul's, commonly known as St Peter's, and this was formerly the parish church for Forncett St Peter. It is an active place of worship and a nationally significant Grade I listed building. Its Anglo-Saxon round tower, built about 1000 AD, is considered one of the best in the country. There are other Anglo-Saxon features. Much of the main building is of later, mainly 14th and 15th century, date. Significant features are: the 1485 Drake tomb, a unique ancient staircase in the tower, carved pew ends, fine ledger slabs in the chancel and nave, good examples of Victorian coloured glass windows, and the ring of six bells. There is a comprehensive modern guide to the church. There is a connection with William Wordsworth: his sister, Dorothy, lived at the rectory from 1788 until 1794 with her uncle, the rector, William Cookson. The church is on the Heritage at Risk Register. There is critical need for repair and a programme of renovation. A community group, The Friends of St Peter's, was set up in 2019 to lead a major fund-raising campaign. (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 67039725 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 28269 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1122978891 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:caption
  • St Peter's Church, Forncett St Peter's, Norfolk (en)
dbp:country
  • United Kingdom (en)
dbp:dedication
  • St Peter and St Paul (en)
dbp:denomination
dbp:diocese
dbp:foundedDate
  • 11 (xsd:integer)
dbp:heritageDesignation
  • 0001-12-07 (xsd:gMonthDay)
dbp:imagealt
  • Front view of St Peter's church showing the late Anglo-Saxon flint round tower; Anglo-Saxon double bell opening; 14th century parapet, stringcourse and gargoyles. Set within a large churchyard with trees to both sides. (en)
dbp:imagesize
  • 200 (xsd:integer)
dbp:mapCaption
  • Location within Norfolk (en)
dbp:name
  • St Peter's Church (en)
dbp:parish
  • Upper Tas Valley All Saints (en)
dbp:priestincharge
  • Revd Lydia Avery (en)
dbp:province
dbp:pushpinMap
  • United Kingdom Norfolk (en)
dbp:website
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
georss:point
  • 52.49055555555555 1.1875
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • St Peter's is one of seven churches in the parish of Upper Tas Valley All Saints in south Norfolk, ten miles south of Norwich, UK. The full name is St Peter's and St Paul's, commonly known as St Peter's, and this was formerly the parish church for Forncett St Peter. It is an active place of worship and a nationally significant Grade I listed building. Its Anglo-Saxon round tower, built about 1000 AD, is considered one of the best in the country. There are other Anglo-Saxon features. Much of the main building is of later, mainly 14th and 15th century, date. Significant features are: the 1485 Drake tomb, a unique ancient staircase in the tower, carved pew ends, fine ledger slabs in the chancel and nave, good examples of Victorian coloured glass windows, and the ring of six bells. There is a (en)
rdfs:label
  • St Peter's Church, Forncett (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(1.1875 52.49055480957)
geo:lat
  • 52.490555 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • 1.187500 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:homepage
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • St Peter's Church (en)
foaf:page
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License