Church of St Andrew
CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172040
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1172040
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
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 ANDREW, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 00321 04832
Details
CRANWORTH CHURCH LANE TG 00 SW Southburgh 10/12 Church of St.Andrew 30.5.60 - II*
Parish church. Medieval, thoroughly restored and partially rebuilt in late C19. Flint with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. Shingled spire. West tower, aisleless nave with south porch and chancel. Late C19 west tower with angle buttresses and ashlar faced canted stair turret to south. Cusped lancet west window. Very narrow paired lancets at intermediate stage. Paired bell openings with trefoil tracery. Crenellated parapet with flushwork and octagonal spire. Nave with 6 re-set 2-light C14 windows with elaborately cusped soufflets and 2 windows with mouchettes. One 3-light window to south in Perpendicular style. Moulded nave doorways. C19 porch in late Medieval style with lozenge flushwork, cusped Y-traceried side windows and moulded entrance on polygonal responds. Chancel with Priest's door to south, 3 2- light Y-traceried windows to south (one with cusping), a 4-light cusped Y- traceried east window and 2 2-light Y-traceried windows to north (one with cusping). Interior. Wave-moulded tower and chancel arches on carved head corbels with polygonal capitals. Very heavily restored double piscina and sedilia with tri-lobe arches on octagonal shafts. Aumbry to north side of altar. Surviving dado of Medieval chancel screen with blind tracery and original paint. Victorian boarded wagon roofs. 3 late C18 wall tablets in chancel.
Listing NGR: TG0032104832
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220804
- 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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