Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNHAM DEEPDALE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237969
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNHAM DEEPDALE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1237969
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jun-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNHAM DEEPDALE
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, BURNHAM DEEPDALE
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:
- Brancaster
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 80446 44307
Details
TF 84 SW
6/8
BRANCASTER,
BURNHAM DEEPDALE,
Church of St. Mary.
5.6.53.
II*
Parish Church of Burnham Deepdale. C11 tower, C12 north door, C14 interior,
late C19 exterior details and north vestry. Flint, C19 stone dress, tiled
nave and aisle roofs, leaded tower roof. West round tower, nave and north
aisle, south porch, chancel and north vestry. Tower has base with set
off to slightly narrower upper stage, 4 round-headed openings on west
face, single north and south round-headed slits, east face with arched
opening to nave, perhaps a later insertion, with copper triangular headed
opening, above roof ridge the line of a large round headed opening. Exterior
details and tracery of late C19 restorations. Door of c.1190 with round
arched head re-erected in north aisle. Interior : 3 bay north arcade,
C14, octagonal piers with bases and capitals, double hollow chamfered
arches. Decorated chancel arch. Important C12 font, re-erected on C19
solid piers, rectangular, stone, with labours of 12 months of year to
3 sides, friezes with bars, foliage etc. Figures under arches : Januarius
man with a drinking horn; (F)ebruarius : Seated figure warming himself;
Marius : man digging; Aprilis : man p_runing; Maius :Figure either beating
bounds at Rogationtide or Risen Christ with banner; Junius : weeding;
Julius : mowing; Au(gustus) : Binding a sheaf; Septembris : threshing;
Octobris : grinding corn; Novembris : pig killing; Decembris : 4 seated
figures feasting at a table. 4th side with 3 Trees of Life. Restorations
in 1875 and 1898 : arched braced nave and chancel roofs. Rood figures
1932 by Sir Waller Tapper. East window High Victorian, stained, 1873
good C15 glass fragments collected in porch north and south windows, tower
west window, north aisle west window, in square squint by pulpit, north
vestry east window. See Michael Crawshaw, St. Mary's Burnham Deepdale,
(Cotton, Suffolk, 1972).
Listing NGR: TF8044644307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 415134
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crawshaw, M, St Mary's Burnham Deepdale, (1972)
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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