Sibton, Suffolk - St. Peter
St. Peter's was founded in 1100, fifty years earlier than the foundation of Sibton Abbey, which lies close to the church across the fields.
The earliest surviving parts of the church are the south and east wall of the nave and the Norman south doorway. The nave was widened and enlarged northwards in the 13th century. Later the nave acquired a richly decorated, low pitched Tudor hammerbeam roof.
The tower, complete with large gargoyles at the corners, was built in the 15th. century, but the crenellated parapet was not added until the early 17th. century. The tower once included a the spire which was removed in 1813, and obelisk pinnacles, taken down as unsafe in the 1970's.
In the early 17th. century the north aisle was added, built of stonework, including the 13th. century north doorway, taken from the ruins of Sibton Abbey. The money for the building of the north aisle was given in a will of 1534 by Robert Duckett.
The building was renovated by the architect Edward Charles Hakewill in 1872, when the chancel was rebuilt for the third time and the south wall of the nave re-faced in the Victorian Gothic style, together with the adding of a steeply pitched over-roof to the nave. The restoration was paid for by the Brooke family, industrialists from the north, two years prior to the wedding in the church of their eldest daughter to a mill owner from Halifax.
The church contains the mausoleums for the Scrivener family, Lords of the Manor of Sibton and owners of the abbey ruin since 1610, and the Chapman Barker family, Lords of the Manor of Peasenhall but buried at Sibton because in their heyday, Peasenhall was a mere chapel to Sibton.
The church received Grade: I listed building status, primarily for its surviving medieval features, on 21st. December 1984. (English Heritage Legacy ID: 285349)..
Sibton, Suffolk - St. Peter
St. Peter's was founded in 1100, fifty years earlier than the foundation of Sibton Abbey, which lies close to the church across the fields.
The earliest surviving parts of the church are the south and east wall of the nave and the Norman south doorway. The nave was widened and enlarged northwards in the 13th century. Later the nave acquired a richly decorated, low pitched Tudor hammerbeam roof.
The tower, complete with large gargoyles at the corners, was built in the 15th. century, but the crenellated parapet was not added until the early 17th. century. The tower once included a the spire which was removed in 1813, and obelisk pinnacles, taken down as unsafe in the 1970's.
In the early 17th. century the north aisle was added, built of stonework, including the 13th. century north doorway, taken from the ruins of Sibton Abbey. The money for the building of the north aisle was given in a will of 1534 by Robert Duckett.
The building was renovated by the architect Edward Charles Hakewill in 1872, when the chancel was rebuilt for the third time and the south wall of the nave re-faced in the Victorian Gothic style, together with the adding of a steeply pitched over-roof to the nave. The restoration was paid for by the Brooke family, industrialists from the north, two years prior to the wedding in the church of their eldest daughter to a mill owner from Halifax.
The church contains the mausoleums for the Scrivener family, Lords of the Manor of Sibton and owners of the abbey ruin since 1610, and the Chapman Barker family, Lords of the Manor of Peasenhall but buried at Sibton because in their heyday, Peasenhall was a mere chapel to Sibton.
The church received Grade: I listed building status, primarily for its surviving medieval features, on 21st. December 1984. (English Heritage Legacy ID: 285349)..