Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1306406
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1306406
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS, MAIN 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 ALL SAINTS, MAIN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Narborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 74654 12962
Details
TF 71 SW NARBOROUGH MAIN ROAD (west side) 2/13 Church of All Saints 23.6.60
- I
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Slate roofs. Tower at western end of south aisle; aisled nave; chancel. West wall of nave was formerly flush with the west wall of the tower. C13/C14 tower with one diagonal buttress, one south facing buttress to south east angle and one facing- north at north west angle. Lancet window to ground floor, single quatrefoils at first floor to east and south and a flat headed loop to west. Carved gargoyle at former join with nave roof. 3 original 2- light Y-traceried bell-openings and one 3-light panel-traceried replacement to east. Crenellated parapet. Vestry, dated 1906, to north of tower. C12 semicircular headed blocked north nave door partially obscured by a lean-to boiler house. North aisle with a blocked late-Medieval doorway and 4 2-light and one 3-light C19 traceried windows in Perpendicular style. Taller eastern- most bay (heightened to accommodate organ). C14 east window of 3 lights with a complex reticulated motif. South aisle with 4 3-light C19 traceried windows in Perpendicular style. The flat heads appear to retain their original hood- moulds with carved head label stops. The east window has a segmental head also with original hood mould and stops. 2 arched tomb recesses on south wall. C19 south porch. Late C13/C14 south doorway with carved decoration to head. 8 2-light clearstorey windows with flat heads and tracery. Chancel with 2 3-light panel traceried windows and a moulded priest's doorway to south. Fine 5-light panel traceried east window. One 3-light window to north with diagonally set marble plaque below in memory of Sarah Tyssen of Narborough Hall (died 1814). Interior. Hollow-chamfered tower arch of 2 orders and no responds. C14 3-bay north arcade of quatrefoil piers with filletted inter- mediate rolls and facetted capitals/bases. Wave-moulded arches of 2 orders. No chancel arch. South arcade probably C15 of 4 bays on octagonal piers with every other facet of each pier concave (except for westernmost pier and respond). Hollow-chamfered arches of 2 orders. Very fine monuments pertaining mainly to Spelman family including some late Medieval brasses, a heart tomb with bust effigy, a large Jacobean monument in memory of Clement and Ursula Spilman with their full-size effigies, a monument in memory of Clement Spilman (1679):- a standing statue in coloured marble and a wall tablet to John Spelman (1662).
Listing NGR: TF7465412962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220916
- 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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