Church of St. Edmund
Church of St. Edmund, Church Lane, Fritton, NR31 9HA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1372918
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Edmund
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Edmund, Church Lane, Fritton, NR31 9HA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1372918
- Date first listed:
- 27-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Edmund
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Edmund, Church Lane, Fritton, NR31 9HA
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. Edmund, Church Lane, Fritton, NR31 9HA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Fritton and St. Olaves
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 47327 00143
Details
TG 40 SE
7/32
FRITTON & ST. OLAVES
CHURCH LANE (south side)
Church of St. Edmund
27.11.54
II*
Parish church. C12, with nave enlarged to south C14. West tower, nave, chancel and sanctuary. Whole building restored 1855, chancel restored 1927. Quaternary and Quarry flint and chert with Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings and some brick. Thatched roofs. Three stage circular tower with a slit lancet to the west. Wide brick lined pointed lancets to ringing chamber and louvred belfry windows, that to west of two-lights and carrying a vesica; the remainder are lancets. Rebuilt plain brick parapet. To south nave is a gabled porch of 1855, matched by a gabled north vestry also of 1855. Three two-light C14 nave windows, each light trefoiled and with a pointed quatrefoil vesica. A large sloping brick buttress is attached to east end of north nave wall. Small chancel with round apse. At east end are two flat buttresses. Between them and to either side are three slit lights (three in all). The chancel is lit through two C15 two-light windows under square heads.
Interior. Double wave moulded inner south door. Arched tower doorway. Square font of 1855 in Norman style (copied from that of Hartland, Devon). Boarded scissor braced nave roof. On north nave wall a large C14 painting of St. Christopher. On south-east window jamb of nave a painting of St. John the Baptist, also C14. Plain but intact early C17 triple decker pulpit. Mid C14 chancel screen of three ogeed bays each side of central opening. C19 circular shafts, plain plank dado and frieze of geometric roundels below top rail. Quadruple chamfered chancel arch, rather stilted, leads into a barrel vaulted chancel, divided from apsidal sanctuary by a flat arch on pilasters. In the chancel are plain early C14 stalls with vestigial button poppyheads. Chancel arch retains scroll paintings and other non-figurative decoration, repainted 1927 but of C12 type. Groin vaulted sanctuary with substantial remains of animal and figurative wall paintings, all C12. Central splayed lancet flanked by one order shafts on bases and with scalloped capitals. Zig-zag arch. Remaining two lancets have similar surrounds added 1855. Rare pillar piscina in sanctuary: moulded base but C19 bowl.
Listing NGR: TG4732700143
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 227767
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 11 March 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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