Church of St Michael
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, BRADESTON
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1152849
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, BRADESTON
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1152849
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Michael
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL, BRADESTON
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 MICHAEL, BRADESTON
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brundall
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 33734 08682
Details
TG 30 NW BRUNDALL BRAYDESTON
7/13 Church of St. Michael, Bradeston.
25/9/62 I
Parish Chuch of Bradeston, medieval and later. Built of flint with stone dressings and part rendered with slate roof. West tower, north porch, nave, south vestry and chancel. 3 stage tower, built 1440-1480, with squared flint base course, 3 light Perpendicular west window, semi-circular south stair turret, single light sound holes and 2 light belfry openings with tracery remaining to west. Gargoyle below parapet to west. North porch with Perpen- dicular entrance with attached shafts and spandrels, and 2 light windows with rectangular heads to north and south. Brick parapet gable. Two 3-light Perpendicular windows, each side of nave, with ogee tracery and Tudor arches. C15 north door in western bay, with bevelled plank door in single splayed opening. Blocked south doorway of chamfered C15 brick. Single bay chancel with diagonal buttresses, and parapet gable with cross at peak. C13 lancet in north wall, 2 light Perpendicular window to south. 3 light east window with Reticulated tracery. C19 lean-to vestry. Interior of tower contains C15 stair door and rectangular stone fireplace and flue. C13 column and capital embedded in wall between south nave windows. C13 eastern respond of 3 attached shafts, base and capitals with water holding mouldings. Openings for rood stair in north wall. Fragment of dropped sill sedilia in south chancel wall. C13 piscina with cusped head and stone shelf with cusped bracket. Butt purlin nave roof, the rafters tenoned into the purlins above boarded ceiling. Arch braces span between wall posts and collars. Early C14 octagonal font bowl with incised decoration of combinations of mouchettes, quatrefoils and trefoils. Monument to Thomas Spencer Frost died 1847, by T. Gaffin. Standing mourning women by an altar. Much of the nave and chancel walls are of coursed Ferruginous conglomerate suggesting an early date.
Listing NGR: TG3373408682
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228461
- 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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