St Peter Mancroft

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FieldValue
nameSt Peter Mancroft, Norwich
imageSt Peter Mancroft.jpg
dedicationSaint Peter
denominationChurch of England
churchmanshipCentral
parishNorwich, St Peter Mancroft
dioceseNorwich
provinceCanterbury
countryEngland
coordinates
osgrawTG 22932 08426
pushpin mapNorfolk
vicarThe Rev'd Edward Carter
asstpriestThe Rev'd Dr Fiona Haworth
curateNaomi Tuma
organistdomJody James
organistJulian Haggett
websitewww.stpetermancroft.org.uk
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St Peter Mancroft is a parish church in the Church of England in the centre of Norwich, Norfolk. After the two cathedrals, it is the largest church in Norwich. It was originally established by Ralph de Gael, Earl of East Anglia, between 1066 and 1075. It was later rebuilt, between 1430 and 1455. It stands on a slightly elevated position, next to the market place.

St Peter Mancroft is a member of the Greater Churches Group.

Description

The present building was begun in 1430 on the site of an existing church, and consecrated in 1455. It is 180 feet long and ashlar faced with a tower at the west end. It is a Grade I listed building.

It has a Norman foundation dating from 1075.

There is a 1463 font, a 1573 Flemish tapestry and medieval glass. This ancient glass includes the 1450 Toppes Window, donated by Robert Toppes, a Mercer and mayor of the city, 11 panels of that window survive are in the reconfigured east window, these are the ones showing:

  • Jesus at the Tomb
  • The Circumcision of Christ
  • The Apostles
  • The Jew arrests the funeral of Virgin Mary. The Jew is shown wearing full armour, bearing the coat of arms of the disgraced royal favourite, William de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk, who had feuded with, and was despised in, the city.
  • The Annunciation
  • The Visitation
  • The Nativity and shepherds
  • 2x Adoration of the Magi
  • Massacre of the Innocents
  • Robert Toppes and two wives

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The North transept displays a collection of church silver, including the Gleane and Thistle cups, as well as memorabilia associated with the physician-philosopher Thomas Browne, author of Religio Medici (1642). George Edmund Street published an exhaustive study of the church in 1879, and in 1896 a small lead-covered spire with flying buttresses was added, designed by his son A. E. Street. In 1850 two L-shaped trenches accommodating a number of acoustic jars were discovered beneath the wooden floor on which the choir stalls had previously stood. The earthenware jars were built into its walls at intervals of about three feet, with the mouths facing into the trenches.

Incumbents

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  • Hugh Casselton 1572 – 1588
  • William Wells 1598 – 1620
  • John Brereton 1620 – 1632
  • Thomas Tenison 1670 – 1680
  • John Connould 1683 – 1708
  • John Jeffrery 1714 – 1723
  • Charles John Chapman 1805 – 1826
  • John Watson Bowman 1826 – 1848
  • Charles Turner 1848 – 1878
  • Sidney Pelham 1879 – 1881
  • Henry Neville 1881 – 1884
  • Frederick Baggalley 1884 – 1890
  • William Pelham-Burn 1890 – 1901
  • Frederick James Meyrick 1901 – 1929
  • Hugh McMullan 1929 – 1940
  • Vacant 1940 – 1945
  • John Waddington 1945 – 1958
  • Kenneth Wilkinson Riddle 1959 – 1960
  • Frank Sydney Jarvis 1960 – 1965
  • William John Westwood 1965 – 1975
  • David Sharp 1975 – 1998
  • Peter W Nokes 1999 – 2015
  • Robert Avery 2015 – 2017
  • Ian Bentley 2017 – 2018
  • Edward Carter 2018 – present

Organ

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A new organ by Peter Collins was installed in 1984. The specification can be found on the National Pipe Organ Register.

Organists

Assistant organists

  • Charles Robert Palmer 1899 – 1901
  • W. Percy Jones 1910 – ca. 1921 – ????
  • Andrew Benians
  • Roger Rayner
  • Tim Patient 1990 – 2005

References

References

  1. "The foundation".
  2. (2007). "Norfolk 1: Norwich and North- East". Yale University Press.
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  4. Matthew, R.. (2013). "Robert Toppes : Medieval Mercer of Norwich". Norfolk and Norwich Heritage Trust.
  5. (2008). "The Fifteenth Century VIII". Boydell & Brewer.
  6. "The Toppes window in St. Peter Mancroft".
  7. "East window of St Peter Mancroft Norwich".
  8. "Norwich, St Peter Mancroft, stained glass".
  9. "The Historic Churches of Norwich". Norwich Historic Churches Trust.
  10. ''The Building News and Engineering Journal'', Vol. 37 (1879), p. 233
  11. Phipson, Makilwane. (1863). "Acoustic Pottery". The Builder.
  12. "Venn's Alumni of Cambridge: Mancroft".
  13. The New York genealogical and biographical record. New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. 1897
  14. The Clergy list for 1841
  15. "Venn's Alumni of Cambridge: John Bowman".
  16. The Clergy list ... containing complete lists of the clergy in England. 1866
  17. "Venn's Alumni of Cambridge: Charles Turner".
  18. Biographical History of Gonville and Caius College 1349–1897. p.413
  19. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer. 9 November 1901. p.10
  20. "''Church Times'': Clergy Appointments, 23 August 1929, p 209".
  21. "''Church Times'': Clergy Appointments, 24 August 1945, p 482".
  22. ''Crockford's Clerical Directory, 1973–74'', 85th Edition, p 810.
  23. "''Church Times'': Obituary, The Rev Frank Jarvis, 19 March 1965, p 19".
  24. "The NPOR | The National Pipe Organ Register".
  25. Restoration cathedral music, 1660–1714 By Ian Spink
  26. Norfolk Chronicle, 18 November 1780, p2, column 4
  27. Norfolk Chronicle, 16 March 1837
  28. Who's Who in Music. Shaw Publishing Co. Ltd. London. First Post-war Edition. 1949/50
  29. "Archived copy".

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