CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1050868
Date first listed: 10-May-1961
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Norfolk
District: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish: Wroxham
National Grid Reference: TG 29656 17540
Summary
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History
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Details
TG 21 NE WROXHAM CHURCH LANE
(west side)
4/84
10.5.61 Church of St. Mary.
G.V. I
Parish church. Fabric mainly of C15 with C12 remains in nave. West tower,
nave, north and south aisles, south porch and chancel. Flint with limestone
dressings, lead roofs. South aisle (rebuilt in C19) partly of red brick
with slate roof. North aisle roof has C20 felt covering. C15 west tower
with traceried sound holes, angle buttresses and parapets with good flushwork
panels. Parapet embattled with corner pinnacles. Windows generally Perpen-
dicular, many renewed or restored in C19. Decorated east window. Very fine
Norman south doorway : three orders of engaged shafts with decorated bands,
capitals and abaci supporting an arch of seven orders, each order having
a separate carved motif. C15 door with iron latch plate, probably C13.
Interior : remains of stair to chamber over original porch. Curious nave
arcades of three bays; octagonal piers, without capitals, supporting four-
centred arches with double hollow chamfers. Remains of rood loft stairs
on south side of chancel arch. Many good C18 and C19 monuments, notably
Robert Blake Humfrey (d.1886) John Wace (d.1795) Daniel Collyer, 1774. Graded
I for fine south doorway.
Listing NGR: TG2965617540
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 228217
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.
End of official listing