Parish Church of St Margaret
PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, BILNEY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051539
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, BILNEY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1051539
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, BILNEY LANE
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, BILNEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Felthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 16980 17318
Details
TG 11 NE FELTHORPE BILNEY LANE
3/16 Parish Church of St. Margaret 10.5.61.
G.V. II*
C14, restored in 1878. Flint with stone dressings and pantiled roofs. West tower, north aisle, north porch, south aisle, north vestry, nave and chancel. West tower rectangular in plan. Diagonal buttresses with knapped flint panels. 2 light west window with flowing tracery. Single light sound holes. C17 bell opening to west with semi-circular brick arch. Bell openings on other facts formerly with 2 traceried lights. C17 brick parapet with obelisk pinnacles. North aisle 3 bays with C14 traceried 2 light windows with hood moulds. C19 north porch with re-set medieval doorway with attached octagonal colonnettes. North door with wave moulding. C19 south aisle with diagonal buttress tower and 3 re- set two light Decorated and Perpendicular windows. C19 vestry, with re-set medieval door and doorway. Diagonal buttresses to mainly C19 chancel, with knapped flint panels. C19, 3 light Perpendicular style east window. Interior mainly C19. Double chamfered tower arch with attached shafts. 4 bay arcades with octagonal piers, bases and capitals. North arcade probably C14, south arcade probably C19. Single chamfered chancel arch. C17 arch braced chancel roof on pendant corbels. Restored piscina with C14 cusped ogee head and bowl.
Listing NGR: TG1698017318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228407
- 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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