Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077266
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077266
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Oct-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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 ALL SAINTS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newton By Castle Acre
- National Grid Reference:
- TF8307115504
Details
TF 81 NW
1/20
23.3.60
NEWTON BY CASTLEACRE
Church of All Saints
(formerly listed as Church of St Mary)
I
Parish church. C11 and later. Flint with limestone, carstone and ferruginous
conglomerate dressings. Pantile and wood shingle roofs. Aisleless nave;
narrower axial tower; chancel. C14 3-light west window with reticulated
tracery. Blocked doorway beneath. C14 plain chamfered north doorway blocked.
C14 south doorway of 2 plain chamfered orders with a hood mould. Pair of
blocked C11 loops with carstone arched lintels opposed towards the middle
of the nave to north and south. 2 C15 2-light south windows with flat heads
and ogee tracery. C11 tower with evidence for an added south transept now
removed. Blocked archway with lancet to ground floor. Sloping dripstone
to former transept roof. Reduced double splayed window at first floor.
Heavily restored twin bell-openings with triangular heads and mid wall piers
of flint and mortar to west and north, and carstone shafts to south and east.
Throughstone slab to west. South and east openings have cubic capitals with
chamfered-off angles, pronounced astragals and simple conical bases.
Pyramidal shingle roof. Chancel with C14 2-light east window with soufflet
and a C14 cusped lancet to north. Piece of limestone re-used in north wall
- possibly a former arched window jamb with drilled holes for a wooden
lattice. Interior. Eastern tower arch original with a roughly semicircular
headed arch on chamfered imposts and sloping jambs. C14 double-ogee moulded
western tower arch with an original triangular headed doorway above.
Surviving rood stair in north west angle of tower. Chancel with a simple
broken piscina on east wall and a C14 aumbry to north.
Listing NGR: TF8307115504
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220923
- 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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