NHER 5048 (Building record) - St Peter's Church, Ickburgh

10 August 1977. Visit.
Formerly dedicated to St Bartholomew. Old church was 13.4m by 6m (44 feet x 19 feet), chancel 8m by 5.5m (26 feet x 18 feet) according to (S1), of flint. Nave windows were cusped lancets, east and south chancel windows intersected tracery. North and south doors. Medieval coffin-slabs and rood screen; mark of much higher former roof on tower. All that survives now of this building is the tower, which (S2) calls Perpendicular but which has cusped Y-tracery bell openings, ie early 14th century, which would fit the windows of the old church. Old roof mark is now only slightly above the present roof of the church built by Phipson in 1866. It has carved gargoyles, and a south porch of wood and stained glass. Stone screen and pulpit according to (S2) (interior inaccessible). Flagon 1731, salver 1764, chalice undated. In recent restoration of the east gable the bottoms of a beer mug and bottles were found, thought to date from the rebuilding.
E. Rose (NAU), 10 August 1977.

T. Martin saw the old church around 1730 and described it as thatched, with two piscinae in the chancel and another by the pulpit. Carved stones in upper part of the chancel. Different houses in the village were responsible for different sections of the church yard wall, an old custom. 'The whole kept in a very indecent condition, and ill becoming a place set apart for worship'.
See (S3).
E. Rose (NAU).

(S4) upgrades to II* and indeed dates tower to 14th century. Note stained glass by Heaton Butler and Bayne.
E. Rose (NLA), 8 December 2000.

October 2004. Watching Brief.
Monitoring of drainage work. Contexts 1 to 6.
No archaeological finds or features were recorded.
See report (S5) for further details. This work is also summarised in (S6).
The associated archive has been deposited with the Norwich Castle Museum (NWHCM : 2016.321).
J. Allen (NLA), 25 August 2005. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 23 June 2019.