Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A Medieval Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
salt-bronze-reed
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Station Road, Fransham
OS grid reference
TF 898 131
Coordinates
52.68236, 0.80774
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church located in Great Fransham, with origins in the medieval period and later modifications. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings, featuring a rendered chancel and slate roofs. The building includes a west tower, a nave with a north porch, and a former south aisle and chancel.

The west tower, dating from the late 13th century to early 14th century, has Y-traceried bell openings, diagonal buttresses, and quatrefoil sound holes. It is topped by a short leaded spire. The modern south wall contains four 2-light traceried windows, while the north side features two 3-light windows in the Perpendicular style from the 19th century. A distinctive Victorian 3-light east window showcases lozenge reticulation, and there are no other openings in the chancel.

The church has a 14th-century moulded north doorway with dying mouldings and fragments of chequer flushwork on the porch. Inside, there is a 4-bay 14th-century south arcade with columns, bell capitals, tall octagonal bases, and 4-centred arches that are hollow-chamfered and wave-moulded. The tower arch has a wave-moulded inner order supported by carved corbels. The chancel arch has been rebuilt but retains original 14th-century semicircular responds with three fillets per shaft and tall polygonal bases. Additionally, there is a 15th-century octagonal font adorned with shields, bust bowl corbels, and a blind arcaded stem.

Local climate

Church of All Saints receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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