Ruined Church and Manor House
RUINED CHURCH AND MANOR HOUSE, HOLT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342523
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Ruined Church and Manor House
- Statutory Address:
- RUINED CHURCH AND MANOR HOUSE, HOLT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1342523
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Aug-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Ruined Church and Manor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUINED CHURCH AND MANOR HOUSE, HOLT ROAD
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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:
- RUINED CHURCH AND MANOR HOUSE, HOLT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- North Elmham
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 98823 21609
Details
TF 92 SE NORTH ELMHAM HOLT ROAD (north east side)
4/46 Ruined Church and 4.12.51 Manor House (formerly listed as Remains of Saxon Cathedral in Old Vicarage Grounds)
GV I
Former church converted into a fortified manor house. Probably built by Bishop Herbert de Losinga (1091-1119) on the site of the Anglo-Saxon Cathedral of Elmham. Converted by Bishop Despencer in late C14. Ferruginous conglomerate with flint core and ashlar dressings. Brick dress- ings to C14 work. Roofless. Western tower with semicircular stair turret, aisleless nave, continuous transept with armpit towers and apse. Evidence for ashlar dressed tower and west transept arches, north and south nave doorways and entrances into armpit towers. C14 work includes a semicircular tower base matching the original stair turret and several masonry partitions with brick dressings. The site is surrounded by C14 earthworks. S.E. Rigold "The Anglian Cathedral of North Elmham, Norfolk" Medieval Archaeology, VI- VII, 1962-3; S.R. Heywood, "The Ruined Church at North Elmham, "Journal of the British Archaeological Association,CXXXV, 1982. The building is also a scheduled Ancient Monument.
Listing NGR: TF9882321609
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 6, (1962)
Medieval Archaeology in Medieval Archaeology, Vol. 7, (1963)
Journal of the British Archaelogical Association in Journal of the British Archaelogical Association, Vol. 135, (1982)
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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