Church of St Maragret
CHURCH OF ST MARAGRET, SPORLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342499
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Maragret
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARAGRET, SPORLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342499
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Maragret
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARAGRET, SPORLE 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 MARAGRET, SPORLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Little Dunham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF8635412973
Details
TF 81 SE
6/39
LITTLE DUNHAM
SPORLE ROAD (north side)
Church of St.Margaret
30.5.60
GV I
Parish church. Medieval and later.
Flint, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings. Black pantile and slate roofs. West tower, nave with north aisle and south porch and chancel. Perpendicular tower with diagonal western buttresses and flat stair turret projection to south. Moulded west doorway with carved head label stops. 3-light Perpendicular window above, quatrefoil soundholes, 2-light cusped bell-openings and a plain parapet. C13 south door with dying arch mouldings and one order of colonnettes with bell capitals, crowned head label stops and female head in quatrefoil above doorway. 3 C13 lancets to south wall of nave and chancel, one 2-light Perpendicular window with embattled transom and similar Victorian replica. 3 partially restored 2-light curvilinear C14 north aisle windows with one double lancet to west and a triple lancet (probably re-set) to east. North aisle formerly ran alongside chancel leaving 2 blocked arches and a simple piscina. Victorian Geometric east window.
C13 3-bay nave arcade and former 3-bay chancel arcade now reduced to one bay. Fine quadrilobe piers with bell capitals and arches of 2 hollow chamfered orders. Carved corbel of human head with horns flanked by foliage forms westernmost chancel arcade support. Chancel arch does not survive. C15 tower arch with facetted responds and capitals. Simple nave piscina and a C13 angle piscina-cum-sedilia in chancel with a bell capital on colonnette and a shaped arm rest. Remains of Medieval decorative paintwork on arches of 2 blocked bays of chancel north arcade.
Group value with Old Rectory.
Listing NGR: TF8635412973
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220440
- 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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