Church Of St Edmund is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Edmund
- WRENN ID
- muffled-clay-ivory
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Edmund is a parish church that dates back to the 13th century and features later additions. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and has plain tile and concrete tile roofs. The church originally had a west tower that fell in 1796, and it consists of a nave and chancel. The former tower arch has been repurposed as the west door and is made up of three plain chamfered orders. The rubble remains of the tower and the eastern ends of the walls have been converted into buttresses. There is a 19th or 20th-century bell-cote at the gable peak.
Inside, there are two large opposing blocked nave doorways, each with two plain chamfered orders. The church features four 13th-century lancet windows, along with one modern replica to the west, and two contemporary opposing two-light Y-traceried windows. The chancel arch has been restored, and the chancel contains five lancets, as well as a 13th-century priest's door on the south side, which has single sections of dogtooth ornament at the springings of its two-centred arch, complete with a hood mould and carved label stops.
The east window is a large four-light Perpendicular style window with an embattled transom. There is a 15th-century three-bay chancel screen that retains some tracery. The church also features a 17th-century hexagonal pulpit supported by a single stem with carved consoles and guilloche moulded frieze panels. A 17th-century prie-dieu is present, featuring an elaborately carved pair of brackets and a guilloche moulded frieze panel. Additionally, there is a restored fragment of a 15th-century screen in the chancel and an undamaged octagonal font adorned with lions and angels holding shields in panels, with angel bowl corbels and lions on the stem.
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