Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195345
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195345
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, 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 ALL SAINTS, 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:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 62040 19570
Details
KING'S LYNN
TF6219NW CHURCH LANE 610-1/10/35 (North side) 01/12/51 Church of All Saints
II*
Parish Church, the earliest in Lynn. C11, rebuilt C14 and C15. West tower collapsed 1763. Carstone, flint and brick with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs. Nave, nave aisles, transepts and chancel. Windows are replacements. West nave wall in gault brick, 1763. Bell cote over gable. 3-light Perpendicular window. 2-light Perpendicular aisle west windows. Stepped buttresses to nave aisles with 3-light Perpendicular windows. Doorways in second bay to north and south sides. Clerestory with chequer flushwork and parapets. Four 2-light clerestory windows under 4-centred arches. Transepts retain C13 fragments, especially to south. 3-light main windows, again with tracery trying to look genuinely Perpendicular, but failing. North chancel with a gabled vestry and a window to its east. South chancel was site of an anchorite cell in C13, of which scars remain. Two 2-light windows. At east end of south side a small gabled structure may have associations with the cell. 3-light chancel east window. INTERIOR. 4-bay Perpendicular arcade with moulded arches standing on elaborated piers. Piers have filleted engaged columns to east and west, and polygonal columns to north and south. Screen to west end formed of 6 painted C17 panels depicting Apostles, relocated from St Peter's, West Lynn. Over screen is a C20 gallery. C15 four-bay nave roof of hollow-chamfered tie beams on arched braces dropping to wall posts and stone corbels. Pierced tracery spandrels. King and Queen posts rise to principals and one tier butt purlins. Late C20 rood screen. C19 hammerbeam roof to chancel. Octagonal C15 font on C19 stem, the bowl panels alternating between tracery and cusping. C15 three-bay sedilia in chancel south wall, each seat recess with a cusped and sub-cusped arched head within square surround. Piscina to east similar.
Listing NGR: TF6204019570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384091
- 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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