CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1152224
Date first listed: 23-Jun-1960
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY
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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: North Pickenham
National Grid Reference: TF8692005375
Details
TF 80 NE
1907/5/40
23.06.60
NORTH PICKENHAM
HOUGHTON-ON-THE-HILL
Church of St Mary
I
Former parish church, now disused. Nave C11, west tower probably C14, chancel replaced with small altar chamber, post-medieval. Flint, partly rendered, with brick and limestone dressings. Pantiled nave roof; hipped slate roof over chancel. Square, unbuttressed west tower with restored west door in Perpendicular style with square head and spandrel panels. INTERIOR: includes wall paintings of c1090-C17 of exceptional interest. It also includes 2-light west window with cusped Y-tracery. North and south nave walls each contain small high level semicircular headed double splayed windows; north window has traces of painted decoration in reveal. North-east window with remains of tracery, probably C14. C14 tower arch with triple plain chamfer and polygonal piers. Blocked north and south doors. Angle piscina with petalled bowl at south-east corner of nave. Re-erected simple nave roof with 3 tie beams and 2 tiers of butt-purlins, post-medieval. Plain semicircular chancel arch flanked by irregular arched niches.
Listing NGR: TF8692005375
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 221037
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