Church of St Peter and St Paul, Lynsted

Heritage listing

Details TQ 96 SW LYNSTED LYNSTED STREET (west side) 2/88 Church of St Peter and St Paul 24.1.67 GV I Parish church. C14 with C13 features and chancel rebuilt C16. Restored C19. Flint and plain tiled roof and shingle spire. Nave and aisles, chancel and north and south chapels, north west tower, south porch and south east attached vault. North west tower of 4 stages with triple offset diagonal buttresses. Upper stages weatherboarded, with broach spire. C19 fenestration except south chapel east window with restored cusped 'Y'-tracery, and chancel east window. C16 uncusped Perpendicular of 15 lights and north chapel east window C15 three-light Perpendicular. East end of chancel originally stood by itself as exposed quoins and discontinuous plinth of 2 chapels indicate. North chapel with C16 fenestration, in east bay, added to earlier west bay, north aisle with C14 and C15 traceried lights and projecting square external vice, and blocked north doorway, round headed oncushion capitals. Interior: 3 bay double chamfered arcade on octagonal piers, north and south, of different C14 and C15 dates (one arch built 1481 - dated by bequest to its building). Blocked arch to tower at north west end. Roof of 3 crown-posts, the westernmost resting on the hood of the west window. Roof of 4 crown-posts in south aisle, lean-to in north aisle and chamfered doors with stairs to rood loft. Double chamfered chancel arch and chancel with 2 bay arcades to chapels, to north chamfered arches with large square pier, to south double hollow-chamfered arches on octagonal piers. Roof of 3 crown-posts in south chapel. Fittings: C19 stone screen in chancel to north chapel and C19 screen to south chapel and south aisle. C19 reredos. Brass chandelier dated 1686. Brasses: Elizabeth Roper, d.1567, 2 foot figur

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.