CHURCH OF ST EDMUND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152884
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND

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Date:: 1999-09-27
Reference:: IOE01/01066/02
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1152884
Date first listed:: 25-Sep-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND

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 EDMUND

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:: Lingwood and Burlingham
National Grid Reference:: TG 37228 08247

Details

TG 30 NE BURLINGHAM SOUTH BURLINGHAM

8/31 Church of St. Edmund. 25.9.62.

- I

Parish church. Some C12 work, but fabric mainly C14 and C15, restored in 1872. Flint with limestone dressings and brick gable to porch; thatched roof continuous over nave and chancel. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch. Square C15 west tower with diagonal staged buttresses; upper stage of tower reconstructed with crude 3-light bell openings and stepped parapet dressed in gault brick. Three light Perpendicular west window; small cusped openings on south and west. Polygonal stair turret at north west corner. South porch with red brick gable, parapeted with tumbling in. Semi-circular headed opening. Norman north and south doorways; the south has one order of shafts with capitals carved with volutes and chevron-moulded arch. Corbel-head over arch. Pointed inner arch with continuous hollow chamfer. Bench on east side of porch supported on re-set carved stone corbels. South nave and chancel windows of c.1300 : 2-light with 'Y' tracery. 4-light east window with inter- secting tracery. Small 2-light Decorated window in north chancel wall, its head partly blocked. 3-light Perpendicular window in north wall of nave. Adjoining small lancet, now blocked. North doorway now blocked in brick : one order of shafts with scallop-moulded capitals (shafts missing) supporting an arch possibly intended to have beak-head ornament, but left uncarved. Single-framed scissor braced nave roof with ashlar pieces to walls. C15 nave roof with roll-moulded arch-braced principals and embattled cornice. Square headed screen with remains of painted panels in base; upper section has ogee arches with panel tracery above. Fine C15 pulpit with 8 panels of original colour and the inscription "Inter natos mulierum non serrexit major Johanne Baptista." The panels are finely traceried and divided by tall buttresses. Early C17 backboard and octagonal tester. On the north nave wall a faint C14 painting of St. Christopher. Octagonal C13 font with open trussed ogee cover. Good set of nave benches with poppyhead ends and carvings of animals and figures on arm rests. Most benches have pierced or traceried backs. C17 communion rail with turned posts and balusters. Fresco on chancel south wall depicting the martyrdom of Becket. Choir stalls with head carvings on poppyhead ends.

Listing NGR: TG3722808247

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Legacy System number:: 228479
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.