Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1169464
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1169464
- Date first listed:
- 26-Nov-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirby Bedon
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 27855 05440
Details
KIRBY BEDON TG 20 NE 2/28 Church of St. Andrew 26/11/59 II* Parish church. C14 with C15 alterations. Original south porch 1479. Restored, re-seated, re-roofed and parts of walls rebuilt in 1876. New tower and south porch 1885 by R.M. Phipson. Flint with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. West tower, nave and chancel. 3 stage square unbuttressed tower with string courses defining each stage. 2-light cusped Y tracery west window. Spherical triangles light ringing chamber. 2-light quatrefoil vesica belfry windows and a flushwork crenellated parapet. Gabled south porch with 2-light side windows under square heads protects C12 south doorway : one order colonnettes terminating in a cushion capital to the west and a crocket capital to the east; square imposts support round arch with a single bold roll moulding. C13 plank doorway with iron strapwork and circular striking plate. Arched and chamfered north doorway with simple plank door, also C13. Nave lit through 2 2-light square-headed C19 Perpendicular windows each side. Similar chancel side windows, one of those to north removed to accommodate lean-to C20 vestry. 3-light intersecting chancel east window. Interior. C19 tower arch. Scissor braced nave roof 1876 with ashlaring. Octagonal early C15 font with trefoiled statuary niches to stem. 2 cusped arches to each bowl panel. Panelled polygonal early C18 pulpit. Renewed chancel arch responds support a double chamfered arch. Scissor braced chancel roof of 1876. C17 altar rails with heavy turned balusters. Bench sedilia and plain piscina. Wall monument to Robert Sheppard and wife, Anne. 1600. Painted plaster and stone. Architectural frame with strapwork decoration contains square recessed niche in which the two figures kneel to right and left of prayer desk. Figures in Elizabethan costume. Above is a strapwork archievement. Predella contains latin inscription. Below is a scrolled apron with coat of arms. Brass to William Dussyng and wife in nave 1505 : figures portrayed naked under shrouds. In chancel a brass with heart and inscribed ribbon scrolls, the inscription now illegible. Various other inscriptions to now missing brasses in nave and chancel.
Listing NGR: TG2785505440
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 227166
- 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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