CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

List Entry Summary

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Name: CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

List entry Number: 1050704

Location

CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN, CHURCH ROAD

The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County: Norfolk

District: South Norfolk

District Type: District Authority

Parish: Newton Flotman

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: II*

Date first listed: 26-Nov-1959

Date of most recent amendment: 02-Dec-1983

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 226613

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History

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Details

TM 29 NW NEWTON FLOTMAN CHURCH ROAD (south-side) 6/36 Church of St.Mary the 26/11/59 Virgin (Formerly listed as II* Church of St. Mary) - Parish church. C15 and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Lead roofs. West tower, aisleless nave with south porch and chancel with organ extension to north. C15 west tower with diagonal buttresses and a large west window with Victorian tracery. 2-light bell-openings with Per- pendicular tracery and parapet with crow-stepped crenellations, gargoyles and carved inscriptions with heraldry on eastern face. Stair turret to north. Nave with 2 3-light cusped Y-traceried windows and 2 3-light Per- pendicular windows, all restored. Chancel with modern traceried east window and 2 2-light Perpendicular windows to south. Rebuilt C16 porch with some original openings re-set. C15 tower-arch of 3 plain chamfered orders on semicircular responds. Similar chancel arch on faceted responds. Blocked former rood stair doorway with traceried spandrels to north and simple nave piscina to south. Trefoil piscina in chancel. Wall monument in stone to the Blondevile family, probably Thomas. Circa 1600. 3 panels divided by pilasters and flanked by columns surmounted by obelisks. Semicircular-headed pediment with blank tympanum. Kneeling figure in centre panel (probably Thomas Blondevile) with 3 female weepers in left hand panel. Brass plaque, probably re-set, in right hand panel with kneeling effigies of Edward (died 1568), Radulph (died 1514) and Richard (died 1490) Blondevile. Rhyming inscription and heraldic shields beneath plaque. Fine C15 poppy head bench ends.

Listing NGR: TM2129898475

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National Grid Reference: TM 21298 98475

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