Church of All Saints
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342473
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342473
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Besthorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 06576 95621
Details
TM 09 NE BESTHORPE
2/51 CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
16.7.58
I
Parish church. c.1320 and later, restored 1876 and 1883. Flint with ashlar
dressings and slate roofs. West tower, nave, transepts and chancel. Tower
of 3 stages on high plinth. Angle buttresses changing to diagonal in second
stage. 2-light cusped Y west window. North and south similar but blocked
with knapped flint c.1450 when repairs carried out. Partly blocked circular
cusped ringing chamber windows to north and south probably C15 as interior
shows arched windows originally intended. Reduced belfry stage pierced by
restored 2-light Y windows below parapet. Gabled south porch with chamfer
and hollow exterior mouldings. Plinth of apex cross remains. Finely moulded
inner jambs and rectangular splayed side lights. One C19 Y window to nave
with tracery of piled trefoils. South transept has string course below windows
continuous and nave and chancel. Angle buttresses. 2-light cusped Y windows
to east and west, the latter blocked as tower. South window is of 3 lights
with mouchette tracery. High gabled roof. Chancel sides have 3 3-light
intersecting cusped windows with flat buttress between eastern pair. Low
priest's door to south. Angle buttresses at east frame 5-light mouchette
east window of 1876 below low coped parapet. String course continues round
north. Cusped 2-light Y traceried window to east wall of north transept.
3-light intersecting north window. North nave window as south. Gabled C19
vestry with angle buttresses and 2-light window with Y tracery and piled
trefoils. INTERIOR Double chamfered tower arch and stilled rere arches over
north and south doors. All windows have internal shafting. Transept arches
carried on polygonal responds with capitals, the arches themselves chamfered
and with hollows below hoods on head stops. South transept contains one walI
niche either side of east window with rising buttresses and ogee or straight
gables crocketted with finials. Similar piscina in south wall. South-east
pier has a statutory niche. Chancel arch hollow chamfered. Chancel sedilia
and piscina in continuous 6-gabled range, the gables containing cusped ogee
arches with ogeed trefoils fitting the spandrels. Crockets and finials.
Chancel north wall has tomb of Sir William Drury of 1640 usually attributed
to Gerard Christmas. Altar pedestal has predella containing alabaster carvings
of 2 of Drury's children with a skull. Sir William reclines on rolled up
mat separated by pair of Tuscan columns from his wife to the left kneeling,
and 3 children to the right, kneeling. All figures alabaster. Semi-circular
niche above effigy bears inscription and is crowned by achievement with coat
of arms in shield. Architraves break forward right and left to meet columns
and are finished by oval medallions with laurel surround. All roofs C19
scissor braced. Fragments of C15 glass. Chancel screen 1931.
Listing NGR: TM0657695621
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220298
- 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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