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CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST

CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152823
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1962
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152823
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1962
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:: Reedham
National Park:: THE BROADS
National Grid Reference:: TG 42781 02496

Details

REEDHAM CHURCH LANE TG 40 SW 7/73 Church of St. John the 25.9.62. Baptist. I G.V. Parish church. C14 with C15 west tower, body of church re-roofed and repaired after fire damage in 1981. Flint, brick and limestone with limestone dressings. Pantiled roofs. West tower nave, chancel incorporating former south aisle, north porch, vestry. Square C15 west tower with staged angle buttresses. Base course of flushwork panels with traceried heads. West door with square label mould and traceried spandrels. 3-light Perpendicular west window with hood mould on head stops. Square traceried sound holes, 3-light bell openings, restored. Polygonal stair turret on south side. South doorway to nave now blocked. Double lancets between staged buttresses in south nave wall. South wall of chancel has two 2-light windows with 'Y'-tracery c.1300. Priest's door between windows with headstops to hood mould. Massive raking brick buttress at south-east corner. Double-pitch east gable : east window of south chancel aisle a triple stepped lancet with continuous hood mould and head stops. 4-light east window to chancel with intersecting tracery. 2-light 'Y'-tracery window in east wall of vestry. Staged buttress between chancel and south aisle. The north side of the church displays much early brick, some set in herringbone-pattern in the flintwork with brick quoins to the north-east corner of the nave. 2-light Decorated window in north chancel wall; three 2-light 'Y'-tracery windows in north wall of nave, the easternmost set in a much reduced opening. Entrance to north porch has drip mould with head-stops and a blocked niche in the gable. Staged diagonal buttresses to north gable wall. North doorway has hood mould with headstops and stooling for finial at arch apex. Interior re-ordered and re-furnished following fire damage in March 1981. Plastered ceilings cover new roof structures. Chancel arch and south chapel arch open into nave. Chancel arch has a double plain chamfer, the inner order carried on corbelled polygonal responds with cusped ogee arcading. Chancel south arcade to chapel C14, of two bays with an octagonal pier and double chamfered arches; a taller bay added to the east c.1500 with polygonal responds and castellated abaci. Two cusped recesses in north chancel wall and vestry door with an ogee headed arch on head stops. Two fine C16 chest tombs in the south chapel; one with inscription not decipherable, the western tomb to Henry Berney +1584. Tomb-chest with Tuscan colonnettes, four centred arched recess above flanked by Ionic columns with kneeling figures in relief. Scrolled ogee arch above containing arms.

Listing NGR: TG4278102496

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 228650
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.