Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, WARHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170780
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, WARHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170780
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, WARHAM ROAD
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 MARY, WARHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Binham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 98179 39942
Details
BINHAM WARHAM ROAD TF 9839 (north side)
20/22 Church of St Mary
6.3.59
G.V. I Parish Church of St Mary. C12 Romanesque church with facade in two distinct C13 styles of plate and bar tracery. Flint with stone dressing, lead roof. Seven bays of nave of church of Benedictine Priory founded 1091 as a dependency of St Albans, retained in use as parish church with 2 further nave bays, crossing and East end now ruined. West front side to be of before 1244. Ground floor and aisles with plate tracery, but nave window an example of bar tracery style of Westminster Abbey. Tripartite nave and aisles facade, demolished behind the latter. Large central four light window now bricked in, with bar tracery octofoil and sexfoils. C16 bellcote. Nave of seven bays with the distinct Romanesque, Transitional and EE phases traceable in internal elevations at arcade, gallery and clerestory levels. Present east wall is built up on the monastic puplitum dividing the two parts of the church. Simple hammerbeam arch-braced roof. C15 seven Sacrament font on stepped base. Dado only of C15 screen, figures of saints visible through later stencilling. 2 stalls with misericorde, Open work tracery backs to poppyhead benches. Arched, coved sedilia.
Listing NGR: TF9817939942
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 223325
- 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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