CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1050959
Date first listed:: 10-May-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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Date:: 2001-10-30
Reference:: IOE01/05267/18
Rights:: © Mr David N. Gifford. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1050959
Date first listed:: 10-May-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:: Brampton
National Grid Reference:: TG 22974 24051

Details

TG 22 SW BRAMPTON OXNEAD

6/4 Church of St. Michael. 10/5/61 G.V. II*

Parish church. Flint with stone dressings, partly plastered; red brick additions; plain-tiled roof continuous over nave and chancel. West tower, nave, chancel, north and south porches, north-east chapel in ruins; lancet in east wall. C13 fabric with addition in late C16 and C18. West tower probably C13 in origin with late C16 upper stage with embattled parapet. Two- light sound openings with hollow-chamfered brick mullions and reveals. Stage- buttresses at division between nave and chancel. Two lancets and priest's door in south wall of chancel. Massive brick angle-buttresses at east wall. C18 crow-stepped brick east gable with H.S. 1711 in tie-irons. C19 east window with geometrical tracery. C18 south porch of brick, plastered over : pantiled roof with parapeted gable. C17 brick north porch with crow-stepped gable; semi-circular headed doorway with moulded brick, pilasters and entablature. Remains of rood stair in south wall. The chancel contains fine monuments to the Paston family : Sir Clement Paston (died 1597) : an alabaster tomb-chest with figure in full armour reclining on a half-rolled mat kneeling figure of his wife Alice. Lady Katherine Paston (died 1636) by Nicholas Stone; a marble bust on a pedestal with segmental pediment over.

Listing NGR: TG2297424051

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Legacy System number:: 227964
Legacy System:: LBS

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