Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1050185
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1050185
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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 MARY, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pulham St. Mary
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 21232 85271
Details
1. 5321 PULHAM ST MARY THE STREET (north side) Church of St Mary TM 2185 15A/1A 7.12.59
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2. Mainly C14 and C15 with mid C13 chancel. Restored 1886-7 by Bodley. Nave with Perpendicular north windows, clerestory and south aisle. Mid C13 chancel with two lancets in north wall and later four-light east window with reticulated tracery. Tall west tower with embattled parapet with flushwork panelling and with diagonal buttresses. Very fine C15 two-storeyed south porch with ashlar front and flushwork-panelled sides, reticulated openwork parapet with pinnacles. Fleurons on the jambs and arch of doorway moulting, crested capitals, spandrels depicting the Annunciation. Flanked by pair of niches. A frieze of studs and above two, two-light windows and five niches. Interior of porch has moulded and crenellated ceiling beams. Interior: Perpendicular four-bay south arcade, with double-chamfered arches and quatrefoil piers with foils. Arch-braced nave roof with tiebeams. South aisle roof arch-braced with tracery in spandrels. Good mid C13 double piscina in chancel with intersecting arches. C19 painted chancel roof with arch-braces. Screen with ten painted figures in panelled base, the upper parts restored by Bodley in 1886-7. Organ case also by Bodley. Good set of C15 benches with poppy-heads bench ends and traceried panel backs to westernmost benches. Timber staircase leading to ringing chamber in west end. Early C14 stained glass in head of north east window of nave, and C15 figures in head of another north window. C15 octagonal font.
Listing NGR: TM2123285271
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 225854
- 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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