Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1248441
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1248441
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jul-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
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 MARGARET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stow Bedon and Breckles
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 95840 94582
Details
TL 99 SE STOW BEDON
7/80 Church of St. Margaret, 21/7/53 Breckles
- I
Parish church. Flint with ashlar quoins and plain tiled roofs. C11 west tower, C15 nave and C14 chancel. Restored 1856. Circular tower with octagonal belfry stage. 2-light Perpendicular west window below lancet. Late C15 belfry with chequer flushwork and 2-light trefoiled windows supporting quatrefoil in vesica. West parapet to nave on kneelers. Gabled south porch with diagonal buttresses and moulded arch. 2-light windows east and west with ogee lights below encircled quatrefoil. Inner south doorway of 2 orders of waves separated by engaged columns on high polygonal bases and capitals. 2 3-light panel traceried windows to south nave separated by flat buttresses with some flushwork. Chancel south punctuated by 2 2-light trefoil windows under flat hoods on beak stops. Simple arched Priest's door. Coped parapet to east and west. Diagonal half buttresses to east and 3-light mid C14 window, probably accurately restored in variation of stem-and-leaf type. One 2-light C15 window to chancel north under flat hood. Flat buttresses and 2 3-light C19 panel windows to north nave. Blocked north door. Interior. Low semi- circular tower arch with impost blocks decorated with cable, interlace and snake motifs above prominent roll moulding. Square Norman font on 5 shafts with plain scalloped capitals. Richly carved bowl : east face with 4 figures under arcade; interlacing arcade to north; 2 Green Men to west, the lower inverted; south face with foliate carving. 4 corner shafts have carving redolent of pre-conquest ideas, the whole probably c.1120. Screen late C14 but heavily restored 1856, of 2 bays flanking ogeed central opening with panels in spandrels. Dado with floral frieze. Angle piscina in chancel with 2 trefoil ogees on renewed shaft. Remainder of fittings and roof 1856.
Listing NGR: TL9584094582
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220242
- 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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