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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
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