Church of St Botolph is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 July 1958. A Medieval Parish church.

Church of St Botolph

WRENN ID
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Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 July 1958
Type
Parish church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Botolph, Stow Bedon and Breckles
OS grid reference
TL 961 955
Coordinates
52.52275, 0.88978
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Botolph is a parish church with origins dating back to the 12th century, which has been remodelled in the 14th, 15th, and 19th centuries. It is constructed from flint with ashlar quoins and features slate roofs. The church consists of a nave and chancel only. A gabled west porch, built in 1887, protects an early 14th-century inner arch with a wave design below a hood on beak stops. The west façade includes a three-light west window in the 19th-century Perpendicular style and a coped parapet supported by kneelers. A hexagonal bell cote with a short spire is supported by a buttress that drops to a figure corbel. The south side of the nave has two three-light panel windows from the 15th century, and there are no buttresses. A vestry outshut is attached to the chancel. The east window features a three-light design in the 14th-century stem-and-leaf style below a hood mould with head stops. The chancel's north side has two lancet windows, while the north nave includes two two-light mouchette windows, with the western window being original.

Inside, there is a piscina in the chancel with a round arch on a corbel decorated with three dog teeth. The east window has a rere arch with dying mouldings, and there is a rere arch to one of the north lancets, with a splay to the other. The roofs are boxed over, and the pews date from 1853, along with other fittings from the 19th century.

Local climate

Church of St Botolph 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% 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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