CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:: CHURCH OF ST MARY, BURNHAM DEEPDALE

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Official list entry

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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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

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Legacy System number:: 415134
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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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.