Church of St Michael at Plea
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AT PLEA, REDWELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051880
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael at Plea
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AT PLEA, REDWELL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051880
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael at Plea
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL AT PLEA, REDWELL STREET
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 MICHAEL AT PLEA, REDWELL STREET
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 23235 08742
Details
TG 2308 NW REDWELL STREET (east side) 16/679 26.2.54. Church of St. Michael- at-Plea I Former parish church now redundant. C15 flint with stone and brick dressings. Lead roofs. West tower, nave and chancel. North and south transepts, south chancel chapel. South porch. 3 stage tower with diagonal buttresses. 3-light C19 Perpendicular west window with pointed arch. 2- light belfry window. Square sound hole on east face. 1827 clockface on south. Crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles. 4 bay nave. Stone quatrefoil plinth band. 4 3-light Perpendicular windows with 2-centre arches. 2 storeyed south porch:- outer doorway with attached shafts and 2-centre arch with dripmould. Badly worn spandrels, the left-hand one showing St. Michael with the dragon. Statue niches each side of the door with ogee heads and finial. Flushwork band above doorway. 3 first-floor openings with square heads beneath continuous dripmould. The 2 outer windows with cusped ogee tracery and the central statue niche with a C19 statue. C20 parapet. Good carved timber door to church with an outer border of quatrefoils and 4 inner panels with complex blind tracery. South transept and chancel chapel continuous with 3 and 4-light Perpendicular windows. The south and east walls of the chapel are rendered. East wall of chancel rendered with 3-light Perpendicular window. Arch-braced roof to nave with longitudinal braces and angels at ridge-level. Corner wall monu- ment with an inscription to Jaques de Hern on the left panel and incised family group on right panel.
Listing NGR: TG2323508742
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229450
- 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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