Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, STATION LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077310
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, STATION LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1077310
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, STATION 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 ST PAUL, STATION LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 03247 07104
Details
GARVESTONE STATION LANE TG 00 NW Thuxton 6/31 Church of St.Paul 30.5.60 - I Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with some galetting to north. Ashlar and some brick dressings. Plain tile and slate roofs. West tower; aisleless nave with north porch and former south aisle; chancel. C13 staged west tower with a truncated octagonal bell stage. Projecting stair turret to south. 2-light Y-traceried west window with one rectangular sound hole above. Stone and tile broaches reduce tower to octagonal top storey which has no bell openings. Blocked arcade to south with 3 2-light Victorian traceried windows beneath former arches. 3 3-light late-Medieval clearstorey windows with rectangular heads and cusped lights. Reconstructed north doorway and porch - all modern except for 2 surviving nook shafts with polygonal bell capitals. Lower part of north wall retains some Cll or early C12 masonry with one surviving ferruginous conglomerate eastern quoin. 2 fine 3-light panel-traceried windows with 4-centred heads. Chancel with C13 plain-chamfered priest's door and a modern 2-light Y-traceried window to north. Interesting C13triple-lancet east window with nascent bar tracery. 2 C13 lancets of unequal width to south and one modern lancet in blocked archway to former south aisle. C15 double-ogee and wave moulded tower arch on polygonal responds with crenellated carved capitals. C19 chancel arch in late Medieval style. Former 3-bay arcade with partly obscured and rendered quatrefoil piers. Plain-chamfered arches of 2 orders. Former double piscinae and double sedilia of which only one cusped piscina arch remains. Tiny aumbry at floor level to south side of chancel. Victorian carved stone reredos arcade in C14 style. Some surviving fragments of Medieval glass in west window and north chancel window. East window, with crucifixion scene, of 1896.
Listing NGR: TG0324707104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220823
- 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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