CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1152560
Date first listed: 30-May-1951
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST MARY
Map
© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2018. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.
Use of this data is subject to Terms and Conditions.
The above map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. For a copy of the full scale map, please see the attached PDF - 1152560 .pdf
The PDF will be generated from our live systems and may take a few minutes to download depending on how busy our servers are. We apologise for this delay.
This copy shows the entry on 15-Nov-2018 at 09:08:26.
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: Fransham
National Grid Reference: TF9020712283
Summary
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Reasons for Designation
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
History
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
Details
TF 91 SW FRANSHAM LITTLE FRANSHAM
10/28 Church of St.Mary
30.5.51
- I
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar dressings, some brick
and slate roofs. Former west tower, aisleless nave with south porch and
chancel. Early C14 nave with 4 (formerly 5) 2-light cusped Y-traceried windows.
West wall dated 1583 (datestone at peak of gable) with a 4-light square-headed
window with hollow chamfered mullions and transom and hood mould with star
label stops. C14 moulded nave doors(blocked to north). C14 chancel with
2 2-light north windows with pairs of mouchettes and single daggers. 3-light
east window with similar motifs within 3 soufflets. 2 2-light south windows
with similar motifs within single soufflets. C14 priest's door. C15 porch
with later brick parvis dated 1743 by tie ends. Diagonal buttresses, flushwork
plinth, moulded entrance and 2 square headed traceried windows. Nave has fine
9 bay hammerbeam roof with roll moulded wall plates and butt purlins, wall
braces and spandrel tracery. C15 chancel arch with 3-shaft responds and 2
shallow moulded orders. C17 5-bay chancel roof with ashlaring, butt-purlins,
collars and wind bracing. Trilobe piscina with C17 panelled and fluted wooden
sedile beside it. Some restored C15 benches with poppy heads, arm rest figures
and pierced traceried backs. Square font of circa 1200 on 4 columns (one
octagonal) with cushion capitals. Bowl with semicircular headed, 2-centred
and trilobe arcading on 3 sides and a mandorla with foliage carving flanked
by rosettes on fourth side.
Listing NGR: TF9020712283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 220483
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