Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S PLAIN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1372513
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S PLAIN
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- 2006-09-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/15332/14
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1372513
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S PLAIN
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, ST MARY'S PLAIN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 22825 09131
Details
TG 2309 SE ST. MARY'S PLAIN
(north side)
10/812
26.2.54 CHURCH OF ST MARY
- I
Former parish church, now redundant.
Early C11 and C15. Flint with stone dressing. Lead roofs. West tower,
nave and chancel. North and south transepts. South porch. Round tower
with 2-light windows having central shaft and remade twin triangular
arches. 4-bay nave with two 3-light perpendicular windows with
2 centre arches on the south side. 2 storey south porch with re-faced
diagonal buttresses. Badly weathered outer doorway with moulded
2-centre arch and spandrels. Central statue niche above door between
2 square-headed windows having cusped ogee tracery. Blocked 2-light
east window. Single-bay transepts with tall 4-light perpendicular
windows north and south. 3-light east windows with staggered brattished
transoms. 3-light perpendicular east chancel window inside a higher
arch with earlier jambs to arch-springing level. Blocked 2-light
decorated window in north wall of chancel. Rood stairs in north-east
corner of transept and chancel. Chancel arch supported on corbels.
Arch-braced roof with ridge-piece and curved wall-bracing in transepts.
Diagonal ribs over crossing with central carved boss and angels.
Butt-purlins in transepts and small first bay of nave roof. Chancel
roof arch-braced and with curved wall bracing. Panelled with
richly cusped quatrefoil and heraldry.
Listing NGR: TG2282509131
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 229586
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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