Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, ST ANDREW'S STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051891
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, ST ANDREW'S STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051891
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, ST ANDREW'S 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 ANDREW, ST ANDREW'S 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 23109 08716
Details
TG 2308 NW ST. ANDREW'S STREET
(south side)
16/700
26.2.54 CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
GV I
Parish Church. Tower 1467 to 1498. South porch C1469. North Porch C.1474
Church 1499 to 1518. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Ashlar facing
on nave and chancel. Lead roof. West tower. Nave and chancel in one.
North and south aisles and porches. Rood turret against south aisle.
4-stage tower with panelled diagonal buttresses and stair turret on south
side. West door with badly weathered shield frieze above. 4-light west
window with 2-centre arch. large 3-light belfry windows with intersecting
tracery. 2-storey porches built against the tower and in line with the
aisles. 5 bays to nave and chancel with an un-aisled half-bay at the east
end. Large 4-light perpendicular windows with 2-centre arches. Eleven
clerestory windows with triangular pilasters between. The east end has
cusped flushwork below plinth with stone shield frieze above. Three statue
niches and 2 armorial shields below large 5-light perpendicular east window
with 4-centre arch. Small diagonal corner buttresses with run-out concave
hollows. Post-medieval re-build of vestry above plinth at the end of the
south aisle. The aisle piers have 4 shafts with a concave moulding on the
diagonal face. Blind cusped tracery below clerestory windows. Low-pitched
roof with heavy ridge-piece and single butt-purlins. Arch-bracing forming
a 4-centre profile and springing from wall-shafts supported on angel corbels.
The Suckling Chapel in the north aisle is enclosed by an open traceried screen.
Good monuments to Robert Suckling (1589). Francis Rugge (1607).
Robert Garsett (1613) and Sir John Sucking (1613). Many 018 monuments.
Victorian font and pulpit.
Listing NGR: TG2310908716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229472
- 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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