Church of St John De Sepulchre
CHURCH OF ST JOHN DE SEPULCHRE, BER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1280767
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John De Sepulchre
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN DE SEPULCHRE, BER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1280767
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St John De Sepulchre
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JOHN DE SEPULCHRE, BER STREET
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 JOHN DE SEPULCHRE, BER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 23464 07762
Details
TG 2307 NW BER STREET (south-west side) 29/51 26.2.54 Church of St. John deSapulchre GV I Parish Church. C15 and C16. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Lead roof to nave, pin tile to chancel. West tower, nave and chancel. North and south transept chapels. North porch. South vestry. 3-stage tower with 4-stages of diagonal buttressing and stair turret in south-east corner. 4-light perpendicular west window with 2-centre arch. Square sound holes with quatrefoil tracery. 2-light belfry windows with 4-centre arches. Crenellated parapet with stone shield panels and early C20 corner pinnacles. 5 bay nave with 3-light perpendicular windows with 4-centre arches. 2 storeyed porch:- semi-octagonal attached shafts and 2-centre arch with spandrels to outer doorway. Tall central statue niche with triangular pilasters and crocketed finial at first floor flanked by cusped lancet windows with square heads. A frieze of 5 flushwork panels and one of badly weathered stone shields separates the storeys. Single bay north and south chapels of C.1536 and C1500 respeotively. South chapel with brick quoins. 2 bay chancel 1479 with 2-light perpendicular windows and slight perpendicular east window with 2-centre arch. 4-centre stone wall-arches with attached shafts extending upwards to form corbels.
Listing NGR: TG2346407762
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228787
- 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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