CHURCH OF ST MARY
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169192
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MATTISHALL LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, MATTISHALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Tuddenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 05596 12954
Details
TG 01 SE NORTH TUDDENHAM MATTISHALL LANE
(east side)
6/36 Church of St.Mary
30.5.60.
- I -
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and brick dressings.
Slate and pantile roofs. Western tower, exceptionally wide aisleless nave
with north porch and chancel. C14 west tower with chequer flushwork to
the diagonal buttresses. Moulded west doorway with a 3-light Perpendicular
window above. 2-light cusped Y-traceried 2nd storey west window. 2-light
bell-openings with ogees and cusped soufflets. Crenellated parapet with
fine flushwork and crocketted corner pinnacles. Buttressed nave with 6
3-light panel traceried Perpendicular windows. 2-storey porch with diagonal
buttresses. Ogee headed niche above the plainly moulded entrance and 4 2-
light Y-traceried side windows. Moulded north and south nave doorways.
Chancel with 4 3-light panel traceried side windows and a Victorian 5-light
east window in Perpendicular style. Parapets to nave and chancel with a
fleuron decorated cornice. Interior. Tower and chancel arches with poly-
gonal responds and plain chamfered arches, Nave piscina to south. The
lower parts of nave.and chancel walls are decorated with colourful Victorian
encaustic tiles. Victorian wall paintings. 2 monuments in chancel. Wall
monument to memory of Katherine Skippe (died 1629) in black and white marble.
Pair of Doric columns flanking inscription supported on pedestal and consoles
with a strapwork apron between. Achievement above with deeply carved
mantling and contained within an aedicule with a scrolled open pediment.
Flanking heraldic beasts. Tomb chest below, probably of Thomas Skippe,
with finely carved heraldry. Surviving C15 chancel screen dado with 8
surviving paintings of saints. 4 re-set late medieval painted dado panels
in tower screen of unknown provenance. High quality medieval glass in nave
windows, west window and lower side windows of porch. Decorative Victorian
roofs.
Listing NGR: TG0559612954
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220742
- 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
