Church of St Mary

CHURCH OF ST MARY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1273641
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1273641
Date first listed:
05-Jun-1953
List Entry Name:
Church of St Mary
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MARY

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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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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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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MARY

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:
Titchwell
National Grid Reference:
TF 76220 43874

Details

TF 74 SE TITCHWELL

5/99 Church of St Mary 5.6.53

I

Parish Church. C12 tower and chancel evidence, C15 and chancel details, late C19 porch. Flint, stone drassings, slate roofs, lead spirelet. Tower, aisleless 3 baynave, 2 bay chancel, C12 round tower has single C19 arch headed lower window, small triangular arched opening above, 3 2-light round arched belfry windows with central balustraded shafts with cushion capitals, window at each blocked by roof pitch. 2 nave south and 2 north 2 light C15 nave windows, 2 buttresses, blocked north door. 2 C15 chancel south windows, one blocked. 3 light east window, south end buttress. 2 north 2-light straight headed windows. C19 lead spirelet. Interior fine Early English south door arch with detached shafts and deeply moulded point arch. Nave tower arch C12. C11-12 8 sided chamfered font on C19 base. Nave roof 1890. Chancel arch C15, with C15 rood screen having some painted panels, original tracery, C19 restoration. C12 evidence in chancel revealed in 1903 restoration, on south side splayed window embrasure interrupted by blocked C15 south window, east wall with 2 blocked splays. C14 ogee headed piscina interrupting exposed early opening. Early C19 north priest's door interrupting C14 arched recess. Freestanding wooden font, supposedly 1794, but mid C18 details. Nave stained glass; north-west Edward Frampton. 1907, north-east Heaton, Butler and Bayne, c.1908, nave south 1869 and 1881 Mayer and Co.

Listing NGR: TF7622043874

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Legacy System number:
417571
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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