Church of St Edmund
CHURCH OF ST EDMUND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304480
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304480
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Edmund
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST EDMUND
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 EDMUND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horningtoft
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 93613 23080
Details
TF 92 SW HORNINGTOFT
4/43 Church of St.Edmund
- II*
Parish Church. C13 and later. Flint with ashlar dressings. Plain tile and concrete tile roofs. Former west tower (fell in 1796), nave and chancel. Former tower arch, now west door, of 3 plain chamfered orders. Rubble remains of tower and eastern ends of walls converted into buttresses. C19 or C20 bell- cote at gable peak . Two large opposing blocked nave doorways of 2 plain chamfered orders. 4 C13 lancet windows (and one modern replica to west) and 2 contemporary opposing 2-light Y-traceried windows. Restored chancel arch. 5 lancets to chancel and a C13 priests door to south with single sections of dogtooth ornament at springings of 2-centred arch. Hood mould with carved label stops. Large 4-light Perpendicular east window with embattled transom. C15 3-bay chancel screen with surviving tracery. C17 hexagonal pulpit on single stem with carved consoles. Guilloche moulded frieze panels. C17 prie- Dieu with elaborately carved pair of brackets and a guilloche moulded frieze panel. Restored fragment of a C15 screen in chancel. Undamaged octagonal font with lions and angels holding shields in panels, angel bowl corbels and lions on stem.
Listing NGR: TF9361323080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220498
- 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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