Church of St Ethelbert
CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076921
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ethelbert
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1076921
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Ethelbert
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ETHELBERT
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 ETHELBERT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Roudham and Larling
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 98227 89740
Details
ROUDHAM LARLING TL 98 NE 6/50 Church of St Ethelbert 16.7.58 I Parish church. C12, C14 and C15. Flint with ashlar quoins and tiled roof. South aisle, nave, chancel, west tower. South aisle C14. Angle buttresses with gablets. Parapets to gable ends with fragments of crosses at ridge. Continuous string course interrupted by porch. West and south windows contain 2-light lozenge tracery. 3-light east window of cusped intersecting ogee type. Chancel has 2 2-light Y windows to north and south. Priest's door in south wall. 3-light east window of C19 in late Geometric style. 4 buttresses to north nave wall (no aisle) of one set-off; 2 western incorporated into C19 vestry. 2 good 2-light Perpendicular windows with hood moulds. Tower of 4 stages with angle buttresses and flushwork. 2 lower set-offs. Stair to north-west with slit lights. Elaborate 2-light Perpendicular windows to belfry on all sides, all C15. South porch rebuilt 1898. C12 south door of very high quality. 2 orders of shafts of diamond stud and scroll-twist decoration. Billet studding between shafts. Foliated rings. Volute capitals and 2 arch rolls with elaborate billet and diamond frieze. Interior has 3 bay arcade to south aisle with octagonal piers on bell moulded bases and moulded capitals. Double chamfered arches. Piscina and sedilia in aisle of C14, and similar double sedilia in chancel. C14 square block font. C19 timber roof throughout.
Listing NGR: TL9822789740
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219879
- 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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