Church of St Ethelbert
CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1049885
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ethelbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1049885
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ethelbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, CHURCH ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Alby with Thwaite
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 20267 33618
Details
TG 23 SW ALBY WITH THWAITE CHURCH ROAD,ALBY
6/1 Church of 4:10:60 St.Ethelbert.
GV II*
Parish church. Medieval. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Pantile roof. West tower, nave, south porch, chancel, vestry. Embattled tower of 2 stages with diagonal buttresses to west; west window of 3 lights with cusped intersecting tracery; square traceried ringing chamber openings; 2-light cusped ogee headed bell-openings; plain parapet; external stair- turret to north-east. Buttressed nave of 3 bays with masonry cross to first southern bay; 2 2-light cusped Y-tracery windows to south of early C14; 1 similar to north; north door, now blocked, with hood mould and 1 square-headed late medieval 2-light window. Clerestorey wall set back just above nave windows to north and south but no evidence of aisles in wall below. Nave buttresses have C16 brick quoins. Small remnant of buttress to second nave bay on north. Clerestorey windows of 2 lights, cusped. Chancel of 2 bays with diagonal buttresses; to south 2 2-light windows, one of early C14 with cusped Y-tracery, one Perpendicular; priest's door to south. C19 vestry to north. C19 east window of 3 lights with cusped intersecting tracery. Unbuttressed south porch with cusped single-light windows to east and west under hood moulds; doorway with attached shafts, polygonal abaci and outer order of continuous moulding; hood mould. Porch roof arch-braced. Nave doorway has hood mould with figure stops. Interior. Arch-braced roof with plain ashlaring. Rood stair. Tall, narrow opening to tower with attached shafts. Polygonal shafts to chancel arch. C19 chancel roof. Some C15 poppy-head bench-ends. C15 octagonal font with shields on bowl.
Listing NGR: TG2026733618
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224449
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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