Church of Holy Cross
CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076784
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076784
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Cross
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH OF HOLY CROSS, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Caston
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 95938 97527
Details
TL 99 NE CASTON CHURCH LANE
4/2 Church of Holy Cross
16/7/58 I
Parish Church. c1300, mid C14 and early C15. Restored 1852-54. Flint with ashlar quoins and thatched roofs. West tower, nave and chancel. C14 tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses. Moulded ogee west door with hood mould on labels leading to integral porch. 3-light west window above string course of reticulation units within larger units. Clock face above. 2-light cusped belfry windows in third stage. Plain parapet. South nave with central flat buttress, 3 3-light early C15 panel traceried windows. Restored 2-light windows to west and east beside diagonal buttresses, the latter below remains of blocked rectangular rood loft window. Low coped parapet on kneelers. Chancel with 2 2-light trefoiled Y windows flanking arched Priest's door. Diagonal eastern buttresses. 3-light east window of intersecting ogee type of mid C14: trefoil cusps support lozenges below encircled cinquefoil vesica. Chancel north contains one 2-light Perpendicular window and a trefoil lancet. Angle buttress to nave. Rood loft stairs. 2 3-light Perpendicular windows under 4-centred arches. Central buttress. Brick 2 storey north porch now vestry. Arched and moulded entrance. Diagonal buttresses. Square headed one-light windows to each floor. Interior Double wave moulded tower arch with polygonal capitals partly blocked with timber to form ringing gallery. Benches installed 1839. 4-centred tomb recess in north wall. Low doorway to parvis to west. Very fine scissor braced roof of early C14 with collars covered with early C15 chestnut panelling decorated with transverse and longitudinal ribs and foliate bosses. Remains of original paint. Battlemented wall plate. Early C17 pulpit panelled with deep top rail with lunette carving. Base of screen. 2 misericord stalls abut screen. Early Cl7 brass chandelier of ball and baluster turnings. 2 tiers of 9 branches rise from central shaft. Trefoil piscina in chancel.
Listing NGR: TL9593897527
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220164
- 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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