Church of St Mary
CHURCH OF ST MARY, EARSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1373626
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, EARSHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1373626
- Date first listed:
- 07-Dec-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST MARY, EARSHAM ROAD
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 MARY, EARSHAM ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- South Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denton
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 28625 87345
Details
1. 5321 DENTON EARSHAM ROAD Church of St Mary TM 28 NE 16/1B 7.12.59
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2. Flint built with stone dressings and slate roofs. Late C13 chancel with 5-light east window with intersecting tracery. North and south chancel windows with Y-tracery. Perpendicular north and south aisles with Decorated east and west windows. Two clerestory windows on each side with quatrefoil square openings. Partly rebuilt west tower, originally circular, faced in brick in C18 in Gothic style and with late Cl9 flint top stage. C15 2-storeyed north porch with diagonal buttresses and niche between first floor windows, and with Tierceron-star-vault with carved bosses depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, the Nativity, the Resurection and the Ascension. Interior: three-bay north and south arcades with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. Late C19 arched braced nave roof. Piscina with traceried gable. Stained glass pieces assembled by Archdeacon Postlethwaite and arranged by Joshua Price in 1716/19, including C15 English figures and continental C16 and C17 panels, and heraldic glass up to Price's own time. Octagonal font with quatrefoils containing shields. Some early C16 painted panels from former screen made up into chest. Monument: 1684 Robert Rogerson, tablet with inscription and stacks of books either side.
Listing NGR: TM2862587345
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 225220
- 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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