Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170846
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1170846
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, THE STREET
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, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Great Snoring
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 94632 34524
Details
TF 93 SW GREAT SNORING THE STREET 6/70 (west side)
6.3.59 Church of St Mary
I
Parish church. Exterior mainly Perpendicular. Flint walls with stone dressings. Nave clerestory and south aisle cement rendered. Slate roofs with c1800 brick dentil eaves cornices. West tower Perpendicular, of five stages, with diagonally set buttresses with squared and knapped flint work, a central door, 3-light west windows and 4 belfry windows. Nave with clerestory and south aisle of 4 bays, chancel of 2 bays. South porch Perpendicular with 2 curvilinear windows, a Perpendicular traceried door within a c1200 arch with shafts missing. South aisle with 3 square- headed 2-light windows, and at east and west 2-light Curvilinear windows. Clerestory with four 2-light Perpendicular windows. Nave north wall with clerestory and below three 3-light Perpendicular windows divided by embattled transoms, repeated once in the chancel north wall and twice in the south wall, one blocked. 5-light c1300 east window with central quatrefoil. Interior: c1200 4 bay south arcade and c1200 south aisle east end angle piscina. Perpendicular tower and chancel arches. C13 grey marble font. Poppyhead benches C15. C18 commandment board, Royal Arms over porch 1688 but later overpaintings. Chancel: C15 screen. Decorated piscina and sedilia with arched crocketed canopies and miniature vaulting. C15 traceried stone panels on east wall behind altar. C18 black and white stippled polished marble floor with 3 steps to altar. Altar rails with end posts with strap work decoration and ball finials, balusters, mid C17. C15 glass fragments in north and south windows. Alabaster wall-monuments c1610, 2 C18 wall monuments, brass of C15. Nave and aisle roofs with exposed rafters c1800. Chancel roof mid C19 elaborate scissors trusses.
Listing NGR: TF9463234524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 223566
- 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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