Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304803
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1304803
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, CHURCH ROAD
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, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Broadland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cantley, Limpenhoe and Southwood
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 38167 04140
Details
CANTLEY CHURCH ROAD TG 30 SE 6/23 Church of St. Margaret. 25-9-62 II* Parish church, medieval, restored c.1867. Built of flint with stone dressings, lead and slate roofs. West tower, nave, south porch, south transeptal chapel, north vestry and chancel. 2 stage tower. 2-light west window with cusped 'Y' tracery. 2-light belfry openings with 'Y' tracery infilled with a lattice of medieval bricks. Putlog holes blocked with brick and stone fragments. Brick parapet. South porch with diagonal buttresses and Perpendicular entrance with half shafts. 4 bay nave with door and 3 windows to north and 2 windows and door to south. Set back buttresses with flushwork on face. South door Perpendicular, with heraldry in spandrel oculi, and oak leaf label stops. 3-light Perpendicular windows with tracery and stilted 4 centred arches. C19 stone moulded eaves and parapet gable. South transeptal chapel with diagonal buttresses. 3-light Perpendicular south window with rectangular head and hood mould. Blocked single light window with 4 centred brick arch and saddle bars, in gable above. Blocked door to west, C19 3-light window to east. Brick parapet gable. Lean-to north vestry with diagonal buttresses and C19 'Y' traceried east window. 2 bay chancel with diagonal buttresses. C15 2 and 3-light windows to north. Central priest's door, formed from re-set Norman arch with chevron decoration, flanked by 2, 3-light Perpendicular windows with tracery and stilted 4 centred arches. C19 3-light Perpendicular style east window. C19 moulded stone eaves and parapet gables. Interior mainly C19. Perpendicular tower arch with half shafts. Perpendicular chancel arch with half shafts. Piscina in south transept, dropped sill sedilia and piscina in chancel. Inscribed brass to Frances Gaudye, died 1637, Simon Kidbull died 1735 and Jonathan Layton died 1801.
Listing NGR: TG3816704140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228599
- 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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