Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1151958
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1151958
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bradenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 93087 08387
Details
BRADENHAM EAST BRADENHAM TF 90 NW 6/4 Church of St.Mary 23:6:60
- I
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Lead roofs. West tower; aisled nave with north porch; chancel. C14 and C15 tower with angle buttresses. Ogee and wave-moulded west doorway with a C19 3-light traceried window above. Relieving arches in flint and stone to middle stage with rectangular loops below. 2-light Perpendicular bell-openings with super-mullions and shallow heads. Post-Medieval brick crenellated parapet. Aisles flank tower; west walls with a 2-light panel traceried window to north and a post-Medieval 2-light Y-traceried window to south. C15 2-storey north porch with stair turret to west. Arched entrance with a 3-light window above with brick chamfered mullions. 2-light cusped side windows. Kneeler finials of mutilated figures. C14 north doorway with filletted rolls dying into plain jambs. 2 2-light panel-traceried north windows and a similar 3-light eastern aisle window. Similar fenestration to south aisle with a C14 doorway of dying filletted rolls. 6 C14 quatrefoil clearstorey windows with a pair of late-Medieval 3-light additions to eastern end. Former C14 roof-line visible on eastern face of tower. Chancel with 4 2-light panel traceried windows and opposing priests' doors (blocked to south). C19 3-light reticulated east window. Octagonal kneeler turrets to east gable. Interior. C14 4-bay nave arcades of 2 hollow-chamfered orders on octagonal piers. Similar chancel arch. Tower arch partially blocked. Cusped piscina in south aisle beside a Medieval altar slab. C15 moulded and arch braced aisle roofs. Chancel with plain arched piscina. C14 octagonal font with C17 crown cover. 3 fine wall monuments.
Listing NGR: TF9308708387
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 221001
- 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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