Church of St Swithin
CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077371
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Swithin
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077371
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Swithin
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST SWITHIN, CHURCH ROAD
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 SWITHIN, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bintree
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 01716 23446
Details
TG 02 SW BINTREE CHURCH ROAD
5/9 Church of St.Swithin 30/5/60 - II*
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Plain tile and slate roofs. West tower, nave with aisle, transept and porch to south and chancel of 1761 according to datestone. C14 west tower with pair of diagonal buttresses and chequered flushwork plinth. 2- light cusped Y-traceried west window. 2-light bell-openings with pairs of short super mullions flanking cusped soufflet. Crenellated parapet with crocketted corner pinnacles. 2 2-light and one 3-light late Perpendicular nave windows to north with flat heads. 2 similar 3-light windows to south aisle with one 2-light cusped Y-traceried west window. South transept with one restored 3-light Decorated window with 3-petal soufflets to gable-end, single lancet to west and 2 2-light Y-traceried windows to east. C18 chancel with east and south windows in Decorated style. C14 moulded north and south nave doorways. Interior. 4-bay C14 south arcade with octagonal piers,bell capitals and arches of 2 plain chamfered orders. Tower arch with filletted semicircular responds and plain chamfered arch. C18 chancel arch in Clh style. C14 octagonal font with elaborate blind tracery patterns in each panel. Rare C12 pillar piscina in chancel.
Listing NGR: TG0171623446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220661
- 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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