Parish Church of Saint Michael Including Church Yard Boundary Wall
PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL INCLUDING CHURCH YARD BOUNDARY WALL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051583
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Michael Including Church Yard Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL INCLUDING CHURCH YARD BOUNDARY WALL, MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051583
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Saint Michael Including Church Yard Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF SAINT MICHAEL INCLUDING CHURCH YARD BOUNDARY WALL, MARKET PLACE
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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 SAINT MICHAEL INCLUDING CHURCH YARD BOUNDARY WALL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aylsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 19262 27008
Details
TG 1826/7 AYLSHAM MARKET PLACE 3/78 (NORTH END) 10.5.61 Parish Church of St Michael including church yard boundary wall
I
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228306
- 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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