Church of All Saints
Church of All Saints, Coast Road, Walcott, Norwich, NR12 0PD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169916
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- Church of All Saints, Coast Road, Walcott, Norwich, NR12 0PD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1169916
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of All Saints, Coast Road, Walcott, Norwich, NR12 0PD
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 All Saints, Coast Road, Walcott, Norwich, NR12 0PD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Walcott
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 36058 31754
Details
TG 33 SE
5/53
HAPPISBURGH
WALCOTT
Coast Road
Church of All Saints
16.4.55
I
Parish church. C15 and C16 (bequests for construction recorded as follows: 1427 nave, 1453 and 1474 tower, 1467 porch, 1534 to "covering the church"). Restored 1854-77 by R.M. Phipson. Flint (Quaternary and Quarry Flint) with Lincolnshire Limestone and Bath stone ashlar dressings and slate roofs. West tower, nave and chancel.
Three stage tower supported by diagonal buttresses. Tower plinth decorated with flushwork trefoiled arcade. Arched west door with wave mouldings below square hood. Carved spandrels. Four-light west window with Perpendicular tracery. String courses between storeys. Square ringing chamber ventilation holes with openwork tracery wheels. Two-light quatrefoiled belfry windows. Flushwork crenellated parapet with stepped merlons. Tower stairs to south east. Buttresses emphasised by chequered flushwork at junctions with tower. Angle buttresses to west end of nave, stepped side buttresses to flanks. Gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses emphasised by chequered flushwork as tower. Moulded arched doorway. Wrought iron porch gates by Fitt and Parke of Stalham, mid C19, with arrowhead finials to verticals. Inner doorway moulded with waves and hollows. Arched side lights. Arched north door with double wave moulded jambs, as have the three three-light Perpendicular nave windows to each side. Stepped side buttresses to chancel separate two two-light mouchette windows. Arched priests' door to south. Window jambs moulded as nave. Diagonal east buttresses. Four-light Flowing east window by Phipson.
Interior. Double wave and hollow moulded tower arch with semi-circular responds on polygonal bases and capitals. Similar chancel arch responds carrying hollow and keeled roll moulded arch. C15 screen of three bays right and left of ogeed central opening. Lights to bays ogeed and cusped below rising tracery mullions. C13 Purbeck marble octagonal font with two arches to each facet of bowl. Bowl supported on central shaft and eight columns (one missing) of later date. C19 nave roof of principals on arched braces and two tiers staggered taper-tenoned butt purlins. Chancel roof similar but with one tier purlins. Sedilia and piscina in chancel of cusped and sub-cusped arches under square hood.
Listing NGR: TG3605831754
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224268
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 19 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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