Church of St. Mary the Virgin
Church of St Mary the Virgin, The Street, Hemsby, Great Yarmouth, NR29 4EU
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227819
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, The Street, Hemsby, Great Yarmouth, NR29 4EU
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1227819
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Mary the Virgin, The Street, Hemsby, Great Yarmouth, NR29 4EU
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 Mary the Virgin, The Street, Hemsby, Great Yarmouth, NR29 4EU
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hemsby
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 49436 17382
Details
TG 41 NE
2/18
HEMSBY
THE STREET (east side)
Church of St. Mary the Virgin
(Formerly listed as Church of St Mary)
25.9.62
G.V.
II
Parish church. Early C14 chancel, mid C14 west tower, C15 nave. Church restored 1868, tower restored 1974. Quaternary flint and chert with Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings and slate roof. Nave and chancel are continuous. Three stage tower supported by stepped diagonal buttresses. Flushwork arcading to base. Square quatrefoil ringing chamber ventilation panels. String course below belfry stage. Two-light cusped and reticulated belfry windows. Crenellated flushwork parapet. Diagonal east and west nave and chancel buttresses with stepped buttresses to flanks. Two storey gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses. Wave moulded arched entrance enriched by semi-circular responds with capitals and bases, all C14. Cusped parvis window above. In gable head an ogee canopied statuary niche. Two-light stilted Perpendicular side windows. Interior of porch with quadripartite tierceron vault with ridge and transverse ribs. Bosses depict scenes: God the Father, The Resurrection, Assumption of the Virgin, Ascension of Christ, Annunciation, Nativity. Inner south doorway of wave mouldings and casements. Three three-light C15 Perpendicular nave windows north and south, restored. South chancel pierced by two two-light Y windows, that to east of arched priests' door cusped with vesica. One two-light Y window to north chancel. C15 restored three-light east chancel window.
Interior. C15 triple chamfered tower arch with semi-circular responds. Moulded timber chancel arch on corbels, all 1868. Octagonal C15 font, the stem of which alternates with buttresses and lions sejant. Bowl alternates with shields and symbols of four evangelists. C19 nave roof of arched braces dropping to wall posts. Moulded principals and one tier moulded butt purlins. Both rood stair doorways and stairs survive. C19 screen. Cusped rectangular nave piscina. C15 chancel roof of same design as nave, restored C19 when windbracing and ridge piece replaced.
Listing NGR: TG4943617382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 402055
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 12 March 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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