Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077597
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1077597
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH 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 MARY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 64035 22752
Details
SOUTH WOOTTON CHURCH LANE TF 62 SW 5/87 Church of St. Mary 15.8.60 II* Parish church, medieval, uncoursed carstone rubble with some erratics, brick sandstone, flint and limestone; plain tiled roof. North-west tower with 1985 extension, nave, chancel, north and south chapel transepts, south porch. 3-stage square tower re-built c1890, galletted carstone with some sandstone, brick dressings, small pyramidal roof behind embattled parapet; semi-circular headed west window and bell openings, oblong slits to 2nd stage; very wide buttress to north with some Cll stone quoins and much iron conglomerate. North nave windowless, brick eaves courses, small blocked north doorway with plain pointed chamfered arch. North transept canted to west, roof continuous with nave roof, hung gault tiles above canted roof to nave; 3-light window to north and 2-light window to north-west, all lights with trefoil heads. Large lean-to across north chancel wall of 1896, mausoleum now vestry, carstone with dark limestone ashlar dresings, green slate roof, diagonal buttresses; two large low plain 3-light windows to north, one to east, large doorway to right with hollow chamfered surround. C13 chancel with stone dressed angle buttresses, gable cross, gable parapet; tall 4-light east window with Decorated tracery; central buttress to south chancel, Y tracery window to right. South transept and windows as north transept but with diagonal buttress to east; two 3-light windows to south nave as transepts, part renewed; windowless south porch with broken flint to front, upper part of porch arch renewed; porch now sealed. Single storey extension of 1985 to south and west of tower. Entrance to church now through west wall of nave from 1985 addition, remains of Cll stone quoins to left jamb. Entrance to tower and to nave gallery through arch of 1985 in south wall. Interior: double hollow chamfered chancel arch with polygonal shafts, hollow chamfered jambs with trefoil stops; early C14 arcade of piscina and 3 stepped sedilia with ogee moulded shafts and arches, trefoil heads within arches. North and south chapels with shafts at arris to nave; aumbry and C14 trefoil headed piscina having figure stops of male and female to south chapel; Cll square font with large grotesques at angles, on 9 columns; rendered altar tomb in north chancel with heraldic achievements and pilasters, shelly marble slab, to Thomas Winde 1603; nave roof of 1880s in pine,hammer beams with arch braces to collars; chancel roof boarded; west gallery inserted 1985 with C19 balustrade of Romanesque style intersecting arcade in wood from church of St. Matthew Norwich; bier dated 1611 in gallery with hooped hearse having long rails painted with biblical texts.
Listing NGR: TF6403522752
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 222179
- 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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