Church of St Nicholas
CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, SCHOOL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1050695
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, SCHOOL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1050695
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Nicholas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST NICHOLAS, SCHOOL 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 NICHOLAS, SCHOOL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bracon Ash
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 17950 00194
Details
TG 10 SE BRACON ASH SCHOOL ROAD
Church of St Nicholas 2/9 26/11/59
- I Parish church. Medieval and later. Rendered-flint with ashlar dressings and plaintiled roofs. Ashlar mausoleum. Nave with south aisle and north porch and chancel with mausoleum to north. 2 fine C14 2-light Decorated windows to south aisle with mouchette and dagger filled vessicas. 2 2- light Y-traceried windows to north side of nave. 5 Y-traceried windows to chancel with carved label stops; tracery of 3-light east window is modern and the 3-light easternmost south window is in timber yet both retain original reveals. Berney family mausoleum of C. 1750 in ashlar with an oculus to each face (blind to east and west) with 4 raised keystones. Northern oculus contained within a pedimented aedicule with rusticated pilasters. Rusticated quoins, moulded cornice and parapet. C15 south arcade of 3 bays with faceted quatrefoil piers and hollow chamfered arches Surviving rood stair to north. C14 or C15 chancel arch with polygonal responds. Fine late C13 chancel with 8 splayed Y-traceried side windows (some blocked yet visible internally) with shafted divisions and continuous deeply carved hood-moulds with label stops. Remains of an important early Renaissance terra-cotta canopied tomb of C.1525 in chancel. (A.P. Baggs, "C16 terra-cotta tombs in East Anglia", Archaeological Journal, CXXV, 1969). 4 bays divided by pendant capitals; recessed panels with Renaissance decoration and candelabra pilasters. Chest destroyed and canopy blocked.
Listing NGR: TG1795000194
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 226586
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 125, (1969)
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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