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
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 June 1984
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Edmund, Horningtoft
OS grid reference
TF 936 230
Coordinates
52.77062, 0.86862
Source
Historic England listing

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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.

Local climate

Church of St Edmund receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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