Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- open-fireplace-amber
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Church Road, Holme Hale
- OS grid reference
- TF 887 075
- Coordinates
- 52.63266, 0.78728
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, topped with slate and pantile roofs. The church features a west tower, a nave with a north aisle and porch, and a chancel. The west tower, built in the 14th and 15th centuries, has angle buttresses and a ground floor with opposed chamfered doorways of two orders on the north and south sides. Above these doorways are moulded strings with irregularly formed brick and flint relieving arches. The first floor has cusped single lights on each side, while the second floor contains loops on the south and west sides. The tower is capped with a crenellated parapet and has large three-light Perpendicular bell openings.
The south wall of the nave features a wave moulded doorway and three impressive three-light panel-traceried windows with cusped soufflets. The north aisle includes four three-light panel-traceried flat-headed windows and one two-light west window in the Decorated style. The porch has rendered brick dressings on the two-light side windows and entrance arch, along with a wave moulded north doorway. There are four two-light panel-traceried clearstorey windows and one three-light window in the eastern gable of the nave. The chancel has a blocked flat-headed window and a wave moulded priest's door on the north side, a modern three-light cusped east window, and two traceried three-light flat-headed windows on the south.
Inside, the church features a four-bay 14th-century north arcade with circular piers supporting hollow chamfered arches of three orders with a hollow roll. The hood moulds have finely carved label stops, and there is a small moulded tower arch. The restored 15th-century hammer beam roof includes renewed angels, and there is a restored screen with some original tracery. A surviving rood stair is present, and the chancel contains an angle piscina with two cusped arches and a colonnette, which is supported by a re-used 12th-century cushion capital.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 62% 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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