Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1960. A Medieval Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
frozen-spandrel-violet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Cockley Cley
OS grid reference
TF 791 041
Coordinates
52.60592, 0.64463
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to medieval times, with significant restoration in the 19th century. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and features plaintile and lead roofs. The building includes a circular west tower, a nave with aisles and a south porch, and a chancel. The tower is likely Norman in origin, with a 14th-century bell stage. There is a small ground floor window on the south side with an arched lintel, and the west window is a 14th-century design with a cusped ogee arch and hood mould. The tower has one Norman first-floor loop window with an arched lintel and two decorative bands of dark knapped flint at the levels of the ground and first floor ceilings, offset below the bell stage. The tower features four 2-light cusped Y-traceried bell openings and an octagonal crenellated parapet.

The north aisle has Victorian tracery, while the south aisle includes similar Victorian windows, a 13th-century lancet window to the west, and a 3-light Y-traceried window to the east. The Victorian porch is designed in a late-medieval style. The restored 14th-century doorway has wave mouldings, double hollow mouldings, and carved head label stops. The chancel, dating from the 13th century, has five lancet windows on both the north and south sides, and triple lancets on the east side beneath a continuous hood mould, with gabled buttresses on the east wall.

Inside, there is an early 14th-century three-bay south arcade with quatrefoil piers that support two orders of hollow chamfered arches, with the square core of each pier slightly protruding. The north arcade is a Victorian imitation. A simple doorway leads into the tower, featuring chamfers that end in broach stops. The chancel arch is plain and chamfered, resting on polygonal responds. The east windows of the chancel have moulded scoinson arches supported by detached shafts, and there are a pair of aumbries on the north side. The chancel has a Victorian wagon roof, while the south aisle contains a trilobe piscina niche and a Victorian stoop designed to mimic earlier styles. The font in the church is of Victorian design in a Transitional style.

Local climate

Church of All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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