CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1152030
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD, WHINBURGH
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, CHURCH ROAD, WHINBURGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Whinburgh and Westfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 00623 08927
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/09/2014
TG 00 NW
6/97
WHINBURGH,
CHURCH ROAD (north side),
Church of St.Mary
30.5.60
GV I
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some
brick dressings. Lead and plaintile roofs. Tower porch to south; aisle-
less nave and chancel. Late C13 tower with angle buttresses. Moulded
entrance arch on triple shaft responds with polygonal capitals. Carved
heraldic shield above with a cusped statue niche. 3 flat-headed loops
to first floor. Bell stage with 2 2-light Y- and plate-traceried
openings to east and west, a cusped and Y-traceried opening to south with
blocked spandrel and a plain lancet to north. Shallow pitched roof without
a parapet. West wall of nave has a 5-light Y-traceried window with cusping,
6 quatrefoils and one cinquefoil: a C19 restoration-in original opening.
South wall of nave has one cusped Y-traceried 2-light window with cusped
spandrel light and a 3-light late-Medieval panel-traceried window without
cusping. North wall with 2 2-light Y-traceried windows: with cusping
to east and plate-traceried to west. North and south doorways each of
2 wave-moulded orders. Finely carved label stops to all nave openings.
Largely rebuilt chancel with one modern 3-light east window in Geometric
style, and to south 2 2-light cusped Y-traceried windows of which the
westernmost is original. Priest's door to north. Interior. Plain
chamfered chancel arch without responds. Nave piscina with cusped ogee
arch. Surviving rood stair to north. Original scissor-braced nave roof
of 32 trusses. The top third of the roof has been removed and replaced
by a shallow pitched boarded arrangement just above the collars. Tall
ashlaring on a moulded wall plate. Early C14 font with a plain circular
bowl on a moulded octagonal shaft.
Listing NGR: TG0062308927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220889
- 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.
End of official listing
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