St Peter South Elmham

St Peter South Elmham

St Peter South Elmham is a tiny village in northern Suffolk; one of the group of seven villages southwest of Bungay known as South Elmham, and part of the wider group known as "The Saints".

St Peter is the most northerly of the South Elmham villages. To the northeast is Ilketshall St Margaret, the westernmost of the Ilketshall group of The Saints, which group lies to the east.

The parish is known as South Elmham St Peter. Its church, St Peter, is a pretty little church, mainly of the 13th and 14th centuries

St Peter's Hall stood to the north of the village, a large 16th century building which was the seat of the Tasburgh family. The origin of the hall is a mystery; parts look ecclesiastical but it was not a secularised monastery as there never was one there; the speculation is that the great windows in the hall and perhaps other material were carried here from Flixton priory three miles away or from the church of St Nicholas, now vanished.