CHURCH OF ST EDMUND
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1304567
Date first listed: 25-Sep-1962
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, CHURCH ROAD
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST EDMUND, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Norfolk
District: Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
Parish: Thurne
National Park: THE BROADS
National Grid Reference: TG 40510 15613
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History
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Details
THURNE CHURCH ROAD
TG 41 NW
(north side)
4/63 Church of St. Edmund
25.9.62
- II*
Parish church. Late C13 west tower, nave and chancel. Partly refenestrated
C15. Restored 1853. Flint with ashlar dressings, partly rendered. Thatched
roofs. Square unbuttressed 3 stage tower with ashlar quoins. Cusped lancet
to west above circular squint. A single ringing chamber lancet to west side. -
Boarded belfry windows. Triple crenellations to parapet of brick, probably
late C15. West nave gable on later brick kneelers. Nave supported by stepped
side buttresses. Moulded south doorway with hood on labels. 3 south nave
windows. To west (over south door) 2-light Geometric-window of 1853. Centre
is 2-light late C13 window with trefoiled-headed lights supporting an irregular
quatrefoil vesica. The jambs and mullions are moulded. To east is a 3-light
C15 Perpendicular window under depressed arch. 2 2-light renewed chancel south
and north windows : square-headed and Perpendicular. Between them an arched
priests' door to south side. 4-light C19 intersecting chancel east window.
Gabled north porch also thatched, and supported by diagonal stepped buttresses.
Moulded arched entrance below statutary niche. 2-light side windows. Late
C13 inner north door. One 2-light C14 north nave window. Interior. Arched
doorway into tower. Arch braced nave and chancel roofs dropping to wall posts
One tier butt purlins and ridge piece. Pendant bosses at junctions. Roofs
probably C16. C19 chancel arch and re-set rood beam. Late C17 altar rails
with turned balusters. Chancel with double trefoiled C13 piscina and simple
bench sedilia. C19 octagonal font.
Listing NGR: TG4051015613
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 227733
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.
End of official listing