Church of St Margaret
CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, DEREHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1305274
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, DEREHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1305274
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Margaret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, DEREHAM 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, DEREHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Garvestone, Reymerston and Thuxton
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 02382 07362
Details
GARVESTONE DEREHAM ROAD TG 00 NW (south side) 6/24 Church of St.Margaret 30/5/60 - II* Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Slate roofs. West tower; nave with south aisle and north porch; chancel. Early Perpendicular west tower with diagonal buttresses. 3-light panel-traceried west window, slit windows to first floor and 2-light bell- openings with single soufflets flanked by super-mullions. Crenellated parapet with flushwork tracery, gargoyles and polygonal corner turrets. South aisle with one restored panel-traceried 2-light west window, a plain- chamfered south doorway, 3 3-light panel-traceried windows with 4-centred heads and an identical east window. North wall with 2 3-light Perpendicular windows, an ovolo-moulded doorway of 2 orders with hood mould and a restored late-Medieval porch. Evidence of former rood stair. Chancel with one 2-light Y-traceried south window and 2 2-light cusped Y-traceried windows to north. Priest's doorway to north and a restored 3-light panel-traceried east window. Interior. 4-bay south arcade of octagonal piers supporting arches of 2 plain-chamfered orders. Wave-moulded tower arch with polygonal responds also wave-moulded. Chancel arch of 2 plain-chamfered orders on 3-shaft responds with intermediate rolls. Chancel piscina with tri-lobe arch flanked by a sedile which probably also served as a window - now blocked. Octagonal font with blank shields surrounded by seaweed carving.
Listing NGR: TG0238207362
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220816
- 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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