Church of St Mary, Moulton
CHURCH OF ST MARY, MOULTON
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051486
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary, Moulton
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MOULTON
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-04-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/05534/05
- Rights:
- © Mr David N. Gifford. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051486
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary, Moulton
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MOULTON
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 MARY, MOULTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Beighton
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 40239 06670
Details
BEIGHTON TG 40 NW 4/12 Church of St. Mary, Moulton. 25-9-62 I Former parish church, now vested in the Redundant Churches Fund. C12 tower, nave and chancel C14 with some later additions. Red brick, flint with limestone dressings. Nave pantiled with crested ridge, chancel and south porch slated, tower plain-tiled. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch. Round west tower, probably C12, with a plain loop opening on the south side. To the north a larger bell opening with a wooden framed louvre. Blocked 2-light Decorated window to west. Conical plain-tiled roof. C16 red brick south porch with stone sun dial set in south-west corner. Double hollow-chamfered arch with square label and shields set in spandrels. Arched niche over doorway. Blocked 3-light east and west porch windows with plain brick labels. South wall of nave has two 2-light windows with 'Y' tracery of c.1300 with a central 3-light Perpendicular window with head-stops to its hood mould. Staged buttresses divide bays. Chancel has two 2-light south windows with 'Y' tracery replaced in wood, probably early C19. Priest's door with intersecting tracery between windows. East gable of nave slate-hung. Chancel east wall rebuilt in brick; cast iron tie plates dated 1877 and 1879. East window replaced in wood : 3-light with intersecting tracery. Flint and stone buttress at north-east corner. Wide single lancets in north wall of chancel and eastern bay of nave. 2 and 3-light north windows in nave. North doorway with plain and hollow chamfers and scrolled label stops. South door retains medieval ironwork. Nave roof scissor-braced with boarded ceiling; chancel ceiling plastered. Remains of rood stair re-constructed at south east corner of nave. Timber beam with barred chamfer stops in place of chancel arch. Chancel benches with poppy-heads, probably early C17. C17 communion rail with turned balusters and posts. Corbel-head set in window jamb, north wall of chancel. South wall of chancel has a fine double piscina of c.1300 with a sexfoil perforation in the spandrel of the double-arched opening. Dropped cill sedilia. Good wall monument to Edmund Anguish (+1616), his wife and son. Nave has fine wall paintings, probably C14: on the north wall St. Christopher and on the south wall the Seven Acts of Mercy. Finely carved octagonal pulpit, early C17, with backboard and tester. C13 octagonal font with two shallow blind arches on each face, plain central stem and eight plain shafts.
Listing NGR: TG4023906670
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228588
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 29-Jun-2026 at 10:32:51.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.