CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY WITH BRICK RETAINING WALL TO THE NORTH

CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY WITH BRICK RETAINING WALL TO THE NORTH, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076872
Date first listed:: 10-May-1961
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY WITH BRICK RETAINING WALL TO THE NORTH
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY WITH BRICK RETAINING WALL TO THE NORTH, CHURCH HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1076872
Date first listed:: 10-May-1961
Date of most recent amendment:: 22-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY WITH BRICK RETAINING WALL TO THE NORTH
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY WITH BRICK RETAINING WALL TO THE NORTH, CHURCH HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY WITH BRICK RETAINING WALL TO THE NORTH, CHURCH HILL

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:: Reepham
National Grid Reference:: TG 10138 22856

Details

TG 1022 REEPHAM CHURCH BILL

8/57 Church of the Nativity of St Mary with Brick Retaining Wall to the North (formerly listed as Church of St Mary)

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Parish church, mainly C14, with a major restoration in 1885. Built of flint with stone quoins and black glazed pantile roof. Nave, north aisle, south porch, south tower, south aisle and chancel, Clerestorey removed and nave roof re-built in circa 1790. Brick and stone west gable parapet with restored curvilinear style window below. North aisle with north door and 3 curvilinear style window. (2 lights with quatrefoil vessica), South porch with C15 doorway and rebuilt brick parapet with tumbling in. 2 stage tower with stepped diagonal buttresses to the south, and battlemented flushwork top. Curvilinear style window and bell openings with 'Y' tracery, South aisle with 1 south window and 1 east window, and chancel With 3 south windows with C19 priests door under central window, 2 windows to the north and east window all in the curvilinear style. North arcade C14, of 4 bays with octagonal piers, moulded base and capitals. South arcade C13, 4 bays, with C14 responds, moulded base and capitals. Tower door in arch, with mediaeval iron work. Chancel, nearly all rebuilt, with to south a niche with curvilinear tracery, ogee hood mould with crockets and a piscina to the right on an octagonal column with base and capital. On the north wall a fine monument, probably William de Kerdeston died 1361. He lies on a bed of pebbles on a tomb chest with eight weepers, and above a canopy with two tall ogee arches, with a pendant between the quatrefoils in the spandrels, with a band of Perpendicular tracery behind. Brass to Sir William de Kerdeston and his wife Cecily (died 1391). Early C13 square font with shallow blind arcade, of Purbeck Marble. Poppy head bench ends some with wild beasts in chancel and at the west end of the nave. East window dated 1867, by A. & H. H. O'Connor. Churchyard, raised above Church Hill, and retained by red brick wall to north, with raking buttresses, and attached to the north aisle wall. (M. J, Sayer M.A. Reepham's Three Churches T. Hugh Bryant The Churches of Norfolk. Norwich Mercury Series part 2 No. CCCXCIII)

Listing NGR: TG1013822856

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 219962
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Sayer, M J , Reephams Three Churches
Hugh Bryant, T, 'Norwich Mercury Series Part 2' in The Churches of Norfolk, , Vol. 393, ()

Legal

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