CHURCH OF ST ANDREW

CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1171638
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE

User submitted image — Uploaded by Sandy Gerrard This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2003-03-27
Reference:: IOE01/10087/16
Rights:: © Mr Alan Francis Polaine. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1171638
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Little Massingham
National Grid Reference:: TF 79258 24149

Details

LITTLE MASSINGHAM CHURCH LANE (northside) TF 72 SE

3/39 Church of St. Andrew. 15.8.60. I

Parish Church. C14, C15. Flint rubble, dressings of squared and knapped flint, stone, red brick and red clunch. C20 machine pantiled nave roof, leaded aisles and chancel, west,tower, south porch, 3 bay nave and clerestorey, north and south aisle, 2 bay chancel. Decorated 3 stage west tower has stone plinth and 4 stage set off angle buttresses on west face only. 2-light Decorated west, and 4 2-light Decorated belfry windows. Brick battlemented paraper. Semi- octagonal south tower stacks with red brick quoined angles, some diapering. Fine Perpendicular south porch has moulded Perpendicular outer arch, flushwork panelling, angle buttresses and finial spirelets. 2-light straight headed north and south windows, low pitched roof. South aisle has one 3-light and 2 south 2-light Perpendicular windows, one east Decorated 3-light window. North aisle has one west, 2 north and one east 2-light Perpendicular windows. Perpendicular north door. Clerestorey with red chalk rubble has 3 2-light straight headed Perpendicular windows. 2 bay chancel has 2 2-light Decorated south windows, one 3-light Recticulated tracery east window. 2 massive east gable buttresses with set offs. High Victorian north vestry with distinctive north-west buttress stack, presumably by Thomas Jelkyll, c.1857. Interior: south porch door, Decorated with moulded arch and label stop with 2 carved heads. 3 bay north and south arcades with octagonal piers with bases and capitals, double hollow chamfered arches with labels and stops. Fine arched braced Perpendicular nave roof, 6 arch braced trusses on single hammerbeams with upper collars, moulded through purlins and ridge. Cornice hammberbeams and collars with upper brattishing, bosses at junctions or principals. Similar 3 bay chancel roof, with boarding. C19 aisle roofs. Decorated tower arch, Perpendicular chancel arch. Table tomb of Sir John L'Estrange, obit 1517, removed into tower 1857, with matrices of coats of arms. South aisle has ogee piscina, H;agioscope squint into chancel. Against chancel arch mid C17 classical wall tablet to Sir Charles Mordaunt, Jaisle Mack obit 1648 tablet of 1783, still Rococo. High Victorian pulpit, 1857, by Jeckyll. High Victorian benches and chancel furniture. C14 angle piscina and arched aumbry in east wall. Carved reredos 1907. Arcade stone Breseton family monument 1907 sills High Victorian in style.

Listing NGR: TF7925824149

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 221907
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.