St Edmunds Church
ST EDMUNDS CHURCH, FISHERGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051279
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- St Edmunds Church
- Statutory Address:
- ST EDMUNDS CHURCH, FISHERGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051279
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- St Edmunds Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST EDMUNDS CHURCH, FISHERGATE
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:
- ST EDMUNDS CHURCH, FISHERGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 23335 09164
Details
TG 2309 SW FISHERGATE (south side) 11/337 5.6.72 St. Edmunds Church - I Former parish church now redundant. C15 and C16. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Slate roof. West tower. Nave and chancel in one. South aisle and south chapel. North porch and C19 vestry. 3-stage tower with 2-stage diagonal buttresses. 3-light perpendicular west window. Square sound holes with rose tracery and 2-light cusped belfry windows. Flat parapet. 2 and 3-light perpendicular windows to nave. Single-storey porch with gable and single angle buttresses. Scar of rood turret on north wall. Tower arch. Fine butt-purlin roof with attached arch-braces springing from wall-posts. Curving well-braces spring from alternate wall-posts. Carved bosses at the intersection of the ridge-piece and principal rafters. Building sequence:- In 1441 a south chapel was added to the aisle-less nave and chancel. This now forms the central part of the aisle. Late C15 the chapel was extended to form the south aisle and in the early C16 extended east to form chancel aisle.
Listing NGR: TG2333509164
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229091
- 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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