Church of St. Andrew
CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342814
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Andrew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1342814
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jul-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Andrew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST. ANDREW
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. ANDREW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tottington
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 89397 95521
Details
TOTTINGTON TL 89 NW
3/86 Church of St. Andrew.
16.7.58 II*
Parish church. c.1360, restored 1885-6 by E.P. Willins. Rendered flint with ashlar quoins and tiled and pantiled roofs. West tower, nave, aisles and chancel. Tower of 4 stages. Angle buttresses to west becoming diagonal and diagonal to east. Arched and moulded west door below 2-light window. Cusped lancets to ringing chamber and 2-light belfry windows, louvred. Battlemented parapet with string course. Small kneelers to coped aisle walls. South porch with rebuilt round arch in brick below small niche. Blocked 3-light Perpen- dicular windows east and west under flat hoods. Roof with tie bars and braces to ridge piece. Undercut moulded door. Chancel with priest's door, one flat buttress north and south and diagonal at east. Clerestorey walls rebuilt in 1886 with new 3-light cusped windows. All aisle and chancel windows covered with corrugated iron sheets but tracery survives of transitional Decorated and Perpendicular styles as follows (from south aisle west to north aisle west via east end) : 3-light panel with spiked lozenges; 2-light ogeed with reticulation units within larger units vertically; 2-light reticulation net; 2-light round headed cusped lights and diagonal petal; 3-light piled mouchettes; 2-light panel; 2-light panel; east window C19 stem and leaf; 3- light intersecting; 3-light pierced panel; 2-light ogeed with rounded trefoils in vesica; 2-light panel above battlemented transom; 2-light ogeed with 3 mouchettes (14 windows). Interior has 4-bay arcade. Quatrefoil piers with continuous hollows and filleted lobes north and south on low polygonal bases. Polygonal capitals support chamfer and sunk quadrant arches with hood on head stops. Clerestorey window splays fall below apex of arcade. Tall chancel arch similar. Nave and south aisle roofs 1886. Nave scissor braced with collars on battlemented wall plates. North aisle roof mainly C14. Moulded rafters and purlins. Alternate principals on arched braces carrying pierced traceried spandrels. Chancel roof lowered and plastered. Cinquefoiled sedilia and piscina. Reredos 1896. Plain octagonal font. No other furnishings.
Listing NGR: TL8939795521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220124
- 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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