Church of All Saints
Church of All Saints, Horsey
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373715
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address:
- Church of All Saints, Horsey
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373715
- Date first listed:
- 16-Apr-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Church of All Saints
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of All Saints, Horsey
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 All Saints, Horsey
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsey
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 45780 23034
Details
TG 42 SE
7/18
HORSEY
HORSEY
Church of All Saints
16.4.55
II*
Parish church. Mostly C13, belfry added late C14. Restored 1855. Flint (Quaternary) and chert with Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings and some brick. Thatched roof. West tower and continuous nave and chancel.
Two stage tower, circular below with octagonal belfry. Two-light C19 west window. Tower off-set at belfry stage. Brick quoins to belfry and one trefoiled lancet each face. Crenellated parapet. Gabled south porch supported on diagonal buttresses. Double wave moulded arch and hood mould. Polygonal responds with bases and capitals. Blocked statuary niche above. C14 cusped ogee light to west of porch under square hood on labels. To east of porch two two-light square-headed C19 windows. Late C20 lancet to chancel. Basket arched priests' door and early C13 trefoiled lancet. Diagonal eastern buttresses flank three-light C19 Perpendicular window. Blind north chancel wall. Brick rood stair excrescence with repaired C18 brick buttress against it. Low buttress to east of C19 two-light cusped ogee nave window. A second brick and flint buttress to east of chamfered north doorway.
Interior. Tall chamfered tower arch. Tower west window with round rere arch. C19 King post roof with straight braces and boarded ashlaring. Octagonal C13 font with one trefoiled incised arch to each stem panel and two similar arches to each bowl panel. C15 benches with poppyheads, two with pierced backs. Early C16 screen (bequest for gidling 1511) of three bays each side of cusped ogee opening. Plain dado. Each bay with cusped ogee arch below panel tracery. C19 rafter and collar chancel roof. C19 chancel stalls. Triple aumbry in chancel north wall. Round arched piscina in south wall with tracery broken off.
Listing NGR: TG4578023034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 223653
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 19 February 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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