PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET

PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, SCHOOL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1306000
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, SCHOOL ROAD

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Date:: 2002-03-02
Reference:: IOE01/05589/12
Rights:: © Dave Oxbury. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1306000
Date first listed:: 19-Jan-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 12-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, SCHOOL ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARGARET, SCHOOL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: Broadland (District Authority)
Parish:: Drayton
National Grid Reference:: TG 18044 13741

Details

TG 11 SE DRAYTON SCHOOL ROAD (west side)

7/11 Parish Church of St. 19.1.52. Margaret. (Formerly listed as Church of St. Margaret.)

G.V. II*

Parish Church, with medieval fabric, though mainly rebuilt in C19. Tower c.1852, nave and aisles 1860, chancel 1866. Built of flint with stone dressings. Nave roof thatch, aisle roofs lead, chancel roof tile. West tower, north aisle, north vestry, south porch, nave, north chancel chapel land chancel. Square tower, with 2 light west window, lancet sound holes and single light bell openings. Battlemented parapet. 4 bay north aisle with paired lancets between buttresses. Central lancets could be C13. Door and 2 light window at east end. C20 brick and flint vestry. Apsidal projection in angle of north aisle and north chancel chapel. C15 south porch with doorway with attached octagonal shafts. 2 light windows to east and west. 3 lancet windows in nave and one C19 2 light window. One bay north chancel chapel with 1 light east window and 2 light north window. 2 bay chancel, with priest's door and 2, 2 light south windows, re-set lancet to north and C19, 3 light Curvilinear style east window. Parapet verges. Interior mainly C19. 3 bay arcade. Fragment of C15 Rood Screen stair remains adjacent to east respond of north arcade. C19 arch braced roofs. Plain octagonal font bowl on two halved Norman colonnettes and centre support. 2 panels of C17. Glass in south east nave window.

Listing NGR: TG1804413741

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 228402
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.