PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL INCLUDING CHURCH YARD BOUNDARY WALL

List Entry Summary

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

Name: PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL INCLUDING CHURCH YARD BOUNDARY WALL

List entry Number: 1051583

Location

PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL INCLUDING CHURCH YARD BOUNDARY WALL, MARKET PLACE

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

County: Norfolk

District: Broadland

District Type: District Authority

Parish: Aylsham

National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.

Grade: I

Date first listed: 10-May-1961

Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.

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Legacy System: LBS

UID: 228306

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Details

TG 1826/7 AYLSHAM MARKET PLACE 3/78 (NORTH END) 10.5.61 Parish Church of St Michael including church yard boundary wall

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Fabric mainly of C14 and C15, much restored in 1852. Flint, partly rubble work, partly knapped with good flushwork panels: lead covered roofs. West tower, south porch, north and south aisles, transepts, chancel and chancel aisles. C14 tower with good four-light west window with late Decorated tracery. Traceried bell openings. Tower roof surmounted lead-covered spirelet, probably early C17. Two storey south porch C15, but lower storey may be C14. Fine flushwork flint panels. Canopied niche flanked by two-light windows. South aisle faced in knapped flint with flushwork-panelled battlements. C15 transepts and chancel chapels of two bays.

Interior: early C14 arcade of six bays with alternating circular and octagonal pillars. Early C17 pulpit with panels carved in perspective. Early C15 font with the Crucifixion, symbols of the Evangelists and Instruments of the Passion around the bowl. Four shields on the shaft, including that of John of Gaunt. Base of rood screen (built c1507) with sixteen painted figures in panels. Reredos of 1833 assembled by John Adey Repton and incorporating some upper parts of screen and misericords. Gallery tinder tower supported on timber posts: arched braces to beams with traceried spandrels. Various brasses and monuments to Bishop Jegon (d1617) and Clement Francis (d1792), the latter by Thomas Ivory of Norwich. Memorial to Humphry Repton and his family against south wall of chancel. churchyard bounded by coped red brick boundary wall, with four-centred arched opening to Old Vicarage.

Listing NGR: TG1926227008

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National Grid Reference: TG 19262 27008

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