St Gregory's Church

ST GREGORY'S CHURCH, ST GREGORY'S ALLEY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1210298
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
St Gregory's Church
Statutory Address:
ST GREGORY'S CHURCH, ST GREGORY'S ALLEY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1210298
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
St Gregory's Church
Statutory Address 1:
ST GREGORY'S CHURCH, ST GREGORY'S ALLEY

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

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:
ST GREGORY'S CHURCH, ST GREGORY'S ALLEY

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

County:
Norfolk
District:
Norwich (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TG 22845 08711

Details

TG 2208 NE ST. GREGORY'S ALLEY (east side) 15/789 26.2.54 St. Gregory's Church GV I Former parish church, now redundant. C14 and C15. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Lead roofs. West tower. Nave and chancel. North and south aisles. North, south and west porches. 3-stage unbuttressed tower with cusped Y-tracery west window, 3-light perpendicular 2nd stage window and 2-light belfry windows with decorated tracery. 2-storey north and south porches against tower. South porch:- 2-centre arch to outer door- way with attached shafts. Central statue niche above doorway with crocketed finial. Clockface with pedimented surround beneath apex of shallow gable. 2-bays of quadrapartite vaulting inside with ridge-ribs and bosses. North porch:- similar doorway to south porch with 2 lancet windows above. Traceried panels and statue niche on the east buttress of porch. 4-bay nave with 3- light perpendicular windows to aisles C1425. Eight 2-light decorated clerestory windows. Single bay chancel rebuilt C1394 with brick barrel-vault beneath east end. 4-light perpendicular windows on the north and south sides with 2-centre arches and raised brick cills. Large 5-light perpendicular east window with brick vaulting scars below. The arcade piers have 4 shafts with small shafts between. Crenellated capitals and 2-centre arches. Tall tower arch. Tierceron vault at the first and second stage of the tower with stone gallery also vaulted on underside. Fine roof with alternating tie-beams and arched-braces.

Listing NGR: TG2284508711

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Legacy System number:
229563
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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