---
title: "St Peter, Westleton"
description: "Located in Westleton, Suffolk. Built Early C14; tower collapsed 1770, stump removed mid C20. Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich. Grade II*. Decorated Gothic style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Suffolk","Westleton","Grade II*","Decorated","Thatched"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-peter-westleton"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T03:04:59.781Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T18:58:22.087Z"
location: "Westleton, Suffolk"
country: "England"
county: "Suffolk"
town: "Westleton"
address: "Westleton, Suffolk, IP17 3AD"
postcode: "IP17 3AD"
built: "Early C14; tower collapsed 1770, stump removed mid C20"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Peter"]
diocese: "St Edmundsbury and Ipswich"
grade: "II*"
style: "Decorated Gothic"
materials: "Random flint with remains of plaster; thatched roofs to nave and chancel; plaintiles to porch; brick bellcote"
website: "http://westleton.onesuffolk.net/church/"
openingHours: "Church open daily."
parish: "Westleton"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1283793"
gridReference: "TM 439 690"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Peter, Westleton

St Peter’s is a Grade II* parish church on The Street in Westleton, Suffolk, in the Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich and the Yoxmere Confederation. Its thatched nave and chancel and lack of a standing tower make the exterior unusual in the county.

## Overview

Historic England records an early-fourteenth-century parish church of nave, chancel and south porch in random flint, with remains of plaster on the north and west of the nave, a thatched roof to nave and chancel, and plaintiles to the porch. At the west end are the roofed-over remains of the original tower, which collapsed in 1770, and of a later successor demolished in the mid-twentieth century after a wartime landmine made the stump unsafe; they have been replaced by a brick bellcote. Nave and chancel are each of three bays. Windows are mainly restored two-light openings with Y tracery; the five-light east window with intersecting tracery was renewed in 1977.

Fittings include a fifteenth-century octagonal font, a set of sixteen nave benches with poppyhead ends installed in 1857, traceried remains of a fifteenth-century screen in the north stalls, a fine early piscina, and a fourteenth-century Purbeck marble slab with the canopied indent of a priest. Local accounts date the present church to a rebuild of about 1340 on an earlier site. The listing is graded II* for surviving medieval fabric.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1283793](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1283793)
- [British Listed Buildings: St Peter's Church, Westleton](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101283793-st-peters-church-westleton)
- [Suffolk InfoLink: St Peter's Church, Westleton](https://infolink.suffolk.gov.uk/kb5/suffolk/infolink/service.page?id=2be797vS14U)