St Peter, Henley

St Peter’s is a Grade I parish church on Church Lane, Henley, Suffolk, in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and the Claydon Benefice.

Overview

Historic England describes a medieval parish church with mid-nineteenth-century extension and restoration: nave, chancel, west tower and south porch, with a parish room added on the north about 1860. The fabric is flint rubble with limestone dressings and plaintiled roofs. The late thirteenth-century south nave doorway reuses billet- and chevron-carved voussoirs from a late twelfth-century arch, with a carved foliate capital in the jamb. Other thirteenth-century work includes a plain north doorway, cusped pointed chancel windows, matching piscina and dropped-cill sedilia, and a small aumbry.

The canted and ceiled nave roof is fifteenth-century or earlier. The fifteenth-century south porch has a moulded doorway with an image niche. The west tower has a flushwork panel over the west door and red brick in the upper stage. The Claydon Benefice records a Domesday church, a porch of the fifteenth century, a tower of the early sixteenth century (possibly 1525), a north vestry of 1838, and major renovations in 1846, 1895 and 1904.

Further Information

• Historic England list entry 1250935
• British Listed Buildings
• Claydon Benefice: Henley