Church of All Saints is a Grade I 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
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Grade
I
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, Church Street, Litcham
OS grid reference
TF 887 176
Coordinates
52.72361, 0.79283
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church consecrated in 1412. It features a west tower built in 1669 by Matthew Halcott, as indicated by a datestone. The church is constructed of partly rendered flint with stone and clunch dressings, and has a brick tower with slate and lead roofs. The layout includes a west tower, an aisled nave of four bays, and a chancel.

The west tower has three storeys, with buttresses on the west and at the eastern ends of the north and south faces. It includes stone quoins and platbands, a three-light Y-traceried west window, and two-light Y-traceried bell openings. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet and obelisk pinnacles at the corners. The aisle windows are perpendicular and consist of three lights with crossed heads on the lateral lights, reminiscent of the church of St. Nicholas in King's Lynn. There is a three-light Y-traceried window on the west wall of the nave, now obscured by the tower, and Y-traceried windows in the chancel, likely from the post-Medieval period.

The nave features arcades with narrow lozenge-shaped piers that have single facetted shafts supporting the inner orders of arches, while the outer orders die into the piers. One octagonal pier may be a remnant from an earlier church. The arches are wave-moulded and hollow chamfered, with hood-moulds that have bearded head label stops. Inside, there is a 15th-century screen with 22 original painted dado panels and restored tracery, along with a 15th-century hexagonal pulpit supported by a single shaft. The church also has blind traceried panels with carved spandrels, an 18th-century stair with turned balusters and fluted newels, and aisle roofs that retain some original arch-braced principal rafters.

Notable furnishings include a fine 14th-century chest with blind tracery, 17th-century communion railings, a pair of medieval misericord seats, and box pews. Fragments of medieval glass can be found in the easternmost north aisle window, and there is a poor box beside the entrance, likely from the 17th century. The church also features a late medieval octagonal font.

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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