NHER 8205 (Building record) - SS Peter and Paul's Church, Honing

West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, tiny chancel.
Isolated.
Church seems to have been Perpendicular (15th century) building mostly rebuilt 1795.
Tower is original (1493 to 1520 according to [1]) flushwork base and battlements; tall west window with two
orders of tracery (one below transom); tall tower arch; west doorway part blocked in brick and part made into intersected window in 1795.
South porch and south doorway also early Perpendicular; porch has coffin slab entrance step and benches with outlines of feet on them.
The bases of some of the arcade columns are also original.
Perpendicular chancel arch.
However all the windows apart from those in tower are intersected tracery of 1795, the date the chancel was demolished and rebuilt very small, so that the chancel arch is almost against the east wall.
Aisles also are far too narrow for their height.
South wall of church of knapped flint, with buttresses, but north wall is of pebbles, and buttresses partly in brick.
Only one north window and no north door.
Evidence indicates therefore that as well as the chancel the whole north wall and the arcades were taken down and rebuilt around the existing tower, south porch and chancel arch.
Some arcade bases were reused. Two hatchments.
19th century memorials.
Interior inaccessible at time of visit; above interior details seen through windows.
(S1) mentions a 13th century Purbeck marble font on Perpendiculr stem; brass, 1496; plate as unusual chalice, Norwich 16th century? And unmarked paten.
The site of the old chancel is covered with bushes (a family vault?).
(S2) records a reference in 1492 to a chapel at the east end of the yard; there seems to have been little room for this inside the old churchyard wall (since extended), and the area has now been cut through by graves. Press cutting (S3) in file. (S4).

January 2001. Observation of drainage trenches produced Late medieval/ Transitional ware.
See further report in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 23 January 2001.

Describes efforts to raise money needed for repair work to church.
See (S5) for more details.
M Langham-Lopez (HES), 05 November 2012.