Church of All Saints

Church of All Saints, Church Road, Wood Norton, NR20 5BD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1373800
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1959
List Entry Name:: Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:: Church of All Saints, Church Road, Wood Norton, NR20 5BD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1373800
Date first listed:: 06-Mar-1959
List Entry Name:: Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:: Church of All Saints, Church Road, Wood Norton, NR20 5BD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of All Saints, Church Road, Wood Norton, NR20 5BD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Norfolk
District:: North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Wood Norton
National Grid Reference:: TG 01058 27777

Details

TG 02 NW 6/112

WOOD NORTON CHURCH ROAD Church of All Saints

6/3/59

II*

Parish church, details largely Perpendicular and of high quality. Quaternary flint and chert with Lincolnshire Limestone dressings, brick upper stage of tower, tiled roofs. West tower, three bay aisleless nave, south porch, two bay chancel.

Tower C15 lower stage, knapped flint, two west angle buttresses with stone dressings, two-light Perpendicular west window, belfry stage of good quality brick with date stone 1700. Stone dressed angle buttresses continuation of C15 work below, stone string course, three brick honeycomb belfry windows with stone imposts and red and black brick header arches, brick string course and battlements. Nave with flint and conglomerate rubble in north and south walls, knapped flint east and west gables, and buttresses. Perpendicular south porch with knapped flint to south face only, stone dressed four-centred arch, two angle buttresses with single set off and pinnacles with crocketed spirelets, stone parapet brought to apex with C15 foliated cross, parapet returned with central gargoyles. Nave south three bay two two-light Perpendicular windows floriated cross on east gable. Chancel south two Perpendicular straight headed windows, priest's door of c.1300. East gable knapped flint with two angle buttresses and C19 three-light Decorated style east window, blocked niche above with gable cross. Chancel north with late C19 lean-to vestry with east window re-used two-light straight headed Perpendicular window. Nave north three two-light Perpendicular windows, buttresses, north door Decorated arch with C15 door.

Interior largely c.1881 restoration, including roofs. Perpendicular tower arch, west window with re-used C15 stained glass fragments. Chancel arch Perpendicular and blocked north rood stairs door Perpendicular. Nave south wall piscina. Chancel with two partly re-used pre-C15 bench ends. Angle piscina of c.1300 with simple window seat sedilia. East window stained, by Charles Gibbs c.1875. Stalls and benches c.1881. Nave stone font, octagonal stem, bulbous font of somewhat classical inspiration suggesting C17 date with wooden canopy with dove.

Listing NGR: TG0105827777

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Legacy System number:: 224024
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'Kellys Directory' in Norfolk, (1916), 540
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 26 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.