The church is long, It features a
nave and chancel, north and south
aisles and
chapels, north and south
transepts, north and south
porches, a three-storey east
vestry, and a west tower. These main-light and tracery panels were originally in the east window of the north chancel chapel, which is highly likely to have been painted by locally-trained glazier John Mundeford at the John Wighton Workshop. Some of the designs for this were also adapted for use at the
church at East Harling. 11 panels of that window survive in the reconfigured east window. These are the ones showing: • The
Annunciation • The
Visitation • The
Nativity and shepherds • 2x
Adoration of the Magi •
Massacre of the Innocents • Robert Toppes and two wives. and St William, likely bishop
William of London|left It is noteworthy that none of the glass is in situ, having been relocated on a number of occasions. These movements include John Dixon’s "improvements" dating from 1847 to 1841, the work undertaken by Clayton and Bell in 1881, and the 1947 reinstallation by Messrs G King and Son which involved releading and rearranging the tracery lights after the window was removed for the duration of
World War II. This east window also shows St William (possibly the Norman London bishop, Bishop William) and
St Erkenwald. Several other windows in the eastern arm of the church were also glazed by the John Wighton Workshop in the decade from 1445, and nearly all of the surviving panels from this workshop are now in the east chancel window, although none are originally from there. Mundeford's father William worked on some of the panels, and much of the stained glass work that is less linear, more painterly and with more expressive faces and gestures can be attributed to him. This includes a panel depicting the
Passion of Christ and another showin the
Crowning with Thorns and the First Mocking of Christ. 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.
Font The church's
baptismal font survives from its medieval era, and is one of its most notable attractions. It has an octagonal stone bowl dated to , and a large and detailed wooden canopy or 'baptistery' dated to the 1520s. John Causton, under the alias of a grocer named John Julian, left 10 marks (£6 13s 4d) in 1463, likely motivating the church authorities to commission it. The bowl originally bore images of the
seven sacraments as well as several figures, likely being almost as detailed as the other Norwich font depicting the sacraments in St Mary in the Marsh, but this bowl was a victim of
iconoclasm and much of it is effaced. The canopy is octagonal in its upper sections, aluding to similarly octagonal
Early Christian baptisteries in Italy. This rests atop four columns like a
ciborium.
Monuments Christopher Joby has described a "
monument culture" in St Peter Mancroft, with a large number of monuments to notable individuals. Several of these monuments use multiple languages in their inscriptions. In the north aisle, there is a monument to Euphrosyne Gardner (d. February 1662), the wife of
linen draper,
sheriff,
mayor, and Member of Parliament for Norwich Francis Gardiner. It includes an inscription which has a
Greek apophthegm; "Ην γαρ φιλει Θεοσ αποθνησκει Νεος", meaning "If God loves someone, he dies young." Euphrosyne died aged 24. Above the north door is a small monument to Samuel Vout (d. 1666), which is in English despite Vout's heritage in Norwich's Dutch
Stranger community. There is a monument in English to Lady Dorothy Browne (1621–1685), which faces that of her husband, the physician and author Sir
Thomas Browne (1605–1682) across the chancel and in
Latin. The former describes her remains that are entombed beneath. The latter mentions Sir Browne's most famous works, was placed there by Dorothy, and indicates that his body was buried near the monument. The couple worshipped in the church. There is another large monument to one of the Dutch Strangers, cloth merchant and alderman John Mackerell (d. 1722) high on the north wall. Mostly in Latin, it ends with the first two verses of
Psalm 112 in
Hebrew script, an unusual occurrence for the time. Robert Camell (d. 1728), assistant minister at the church who was then buried there, also has a monument that is in Latin, with one word in Greek, "θεAνθρωποΣ", meaning 'God-man'. Other monuments, to sheriff and mayor Edward Coleburne (d. 1730), sheriff of Norwich John Smith (d. 1753), the merchant Thomas Ives (d. 1781), and sheriff and mayor Thomas Starling (d. 1788), also reside in the church. ==Incumbents==