---
title: "St Peter, Walpole St Peter"
description: "Located in Walpole St Peter, Norfolk. Built Early C14 tower base; remainder late C14; restored 1898. Diocese of Ely. Grade I. Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Norfolk","Walpole St Peter","Grade I","Perpendicular","Diocese of Ely"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-peter-walpole-st-peter"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T03:02:53.783Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-09T12:30:02.233Z"
location: "Walpole St Peter, Norfolk"
country: "England"
county: "Norfolk"
town: "Walpole St Peter"
address: "Church Road, Walpole St Peter, Norfolk, PE14 7NS"
postcode: "PE14 7NS"
built: "Early C14 tower base; remainder late C14; restored 1898"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Peter"]
diocese: "Ely"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular"
materials: "Ashlar with lead roofs"
website: "http://www.walpolestpeterchurch.org/"
openingHours: "Open every day."
parish: "Walpole St Peter with St Andrew"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1264167"
gridReference: "TF 502 169"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Peter, Walpole St Peter

St Peter is a Grade I parish church on Church Road in Walpole St Peter, Norfolk, in the Diocese of Ely. It is often called the Cathedral of the Fens.

## Overview

Historic England records an early fourteenth-century base to the west tower and a late fourteenth-century nave, aisles and chancel, restored in 1898, of ashlar with lead roofs. The four-stage tower has angle buttresses, a polygonal south-west stair turret, an early fourteenth-century two-light west window, transomed belfry windows and a crenellated parapet with gargoyles. Aisles and clerestory have crenellated parapets with panelling and animal-head gargoyles. An elaborate two-storey early fifteenth-century south porch has a two-bay vault with carved bosses and original double timber doors with carved arcading.

A vaulted processional passageway runs beneath the east bay of the chancel. The interior has a seven-bay arcade of quatrefoil piers, a fifteenth-century rood-screen dado with painted saints, a pulpit dated 1620, an octagonal font dated 1532 with an early seventeenth-century cover, and a poor box inscribed Remember the Poore 1639. Eighteenth-century box pews survive in the nave. The church remains open daily and is regarded as one of England's finest Perpendicular parish churches.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1264167](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1264167)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Peter](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101264167-church-of-st-peter-walpole)