Church of St. Andrew
Church of St. Andrew, Reepham Road, Thurning
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153202
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Andrew, Reepham Road, Thurning
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1153202
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Andrew, Reepham Road, Thurning
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. Andrew, Reepham Road, Thurning
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thurning
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 08038 29446
Details
TG 02 NE
7/98
THURNING
REEPHAM ROAD (west)
Church of St. Andrew
6/3/59
II*
Parish church, C14 tower, nave and north aisle, later Perpendicular details inserted. Quaternary and Quarry flint with Lincolnshire Limestone dressings, slated roof. West tower, nave and north aisle, south porch, chancel in ruins.
Unbuttressed west tower with single west lancet with broken trefoil tracery, single rectangular opening to belfry chamber on east, north and west faces, south with two-light Decorated window with clock below. Flush work battlemented parapet. Nave south three two-light Decorated windows with tracery heads, south porch Perpendicular with hood moulded arch recut, angle buttresses, blocked two-light Perpendicular window on east. East window of three-lights, reticulated tracery and former chancel south priest's door both re-erected in nave east wall. North chancel wall surviving. North aisle with Perpendicular straight headed three-light east window, two straight headed two-light north windows, two light Y-tracery west window of c.1300, blocked north door of c.1300.
Interior: four bay north arcade of Perpendicular octagonal piers, double hollow chamfered arches. Furnishings by James Burroughs for Corpus Christi College Cambridge chapel of 1742 re-erected here after 1824 by the Rev. Henry William Blake, MA and former Fellow. Three decker pulpit with sounding board, three-sided communion rails with gates, moulded plinth and shelf, turned balusters, sanctuary panelling. North aisle filled with box pews, nave with open benches, boxes at rear. Nave east wall two good mid C18 wall monuments, to north with rococo details signed E. Holl, 1766. Nave south wall monument signed W. Tyler 1750. Six-part Gothick tower door c.1820. Early C19 nave and aisle roofs. Late C19 stone font with wooden cover.
Listing NGR: TG0803829446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224010
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Sayer, M J, Thurning, (1972)
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 25 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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