Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. Church.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
high-passage-jet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 May 1960
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Andrew, Norwich Road, Guist
OS grid reference
TG 000 256
Coordinates
52.79093, 0.96501
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church located in Guist, built in medieval times with later additions. It features a flint construction with ashlar dressings and plaintile roofs. The church has a western tower, a nave with a north aisle and a south porch, and a chancel. The unbuttressed tower, likely from the 16th century, includes a canted stair turret on the south side. The west window has been restored and features 2-light Y-tracery, while the tower has quatrefoil sound holes and plain 2-light bell-openings with 4-centred heads, topped by a parapet. The nave contains a 2-light and a 3-light panel traceried late Perpendicular window with flat heads on the south side. The north aisle, added in 1889, has five trefoil lancets. The south door, dating from the 13th century, is plain and chamfered with a hood mould. The chancel was constructed in 1881 by H. Green of Norwich, and the porch was added in 1907.

Inside, there is a Perpendicular tower arch with three plain chamfered orders on semi-circular responds. The north arcade, built in 1889, is in Early English style and features columns with ovolo-moulded arches. The chancel contains notable 18th and 19th-century wall tablets dedicated to the Norris and Wigget families, along with two windows featuring Victorian stained glass.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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