Church of St Giles
CHURCH OF ST GILES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373434
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373434
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Giles
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST GILES
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 GILES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Colby
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 22028 31126
Details
TG 23 SW COLBY
6/24 Church of St.Giles 4:10:60
- II*
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with stone dressings, brick. Tiled roof. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch. Unbuttressed tower of stages. West window with Y-tracery of cl300. Change above this from flint fragments to larger flints. Ringing chamber openings cusped with hood moulds. 2-light Perpendicular bell opening. Gargoyles. Brick parapet. 4 bay buttressed nave. 3 3-light windows with panel tracery to south. Rood stair to south east corner of nave now cemented over. To north nave and chancel wall brick of 1749 with semi-circular headed windows. 2 bay chancel buttressed with diagonal buttress to south. 2 3-light panel tracery windows under 4-centre arches with hood moulds. Buttressed C15 porch of 2 storeys to first nave bay. Flushwork to base, also to left and right of door and above door. Stone carvings of St. Michael and St. George in the spandrels. Central niche with stone canopy to upper storey with a window to each side having cusped ogee head under square hood moulds. Restored doorway has shaft with continuous inner and outer moulding with hollows and rolls. Plain inner doorway, back of door probably C17. Interior. Tall, narrow, tower arch. Rood stair. Some re-used poppy-head bench ends. Arch from parvise into nave now blocked. Font with cusped, sunk panels on shaft; octagonal bowl with lion head supports having the symbols of the Evangelists, the donors, the Virgin and child, woodman with axe, final panel blank. Ogee arched piscina and sedilia.
Listing NGR: TG2202831126
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224471
- 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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