Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, KIRKGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1171738
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1959
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, KIRKGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1171738
Date first listed:
06-Mar-1959
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, KIRKGATE

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, KIRKGATE

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Wighton
National Grid Reference:
TF 94061 39953

Details

WIGHTON KIRKGATE TF 9439 (east side)

19/177 Church of All Saints

6.3.59 I

Parish church. Perpendicular style with earlier tower rebuilt. Walls flint, stone dressings. Roof slates. W tower, S porch, nave and N and S aisles, chancel, remains of vestry to E, wall remaining. W tower formerly of c1300 rebuilt within remains of collapsed tower 1975; shields from battlements re-set. Flint on brick, concrete core. Two storey porch with staircase; similar staircase at angle (SE) of tower and aisle. Six-bay aisles, nave and clerestory c1400 details. Two bay chancel, 5-light E window.

Interior: 6-bay arcade, quatrefoil piers, chancel of width of nave (ie 20 ft) with complete roof stairs in thickness. Nave roof cased in later woodwork, and chancel roof c1400. Pammet floors, nave and aisles, enriched with C19 encaustic tiles chancel. C19 pine bench, nave.

Furnishings: C15 glazed fragments in N and S aisle tracery. Early C19 figures, some in fall grisaille fields, in N and S aisle windows. N aisle: Bedingfield/ Bacon altar tomb, second half C17, classical. W bay, E bay to N arcade: 2 C18 Bedingfield cartouche monuments attached to piers. Chancel: cl8 cartouche N wall.

Listing NGR: TF9406139953

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
223484
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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