Church Of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. Church.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- graven-stronghold-willow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 July 1958
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating back to the 14th century, with a 12th-century core. It was restored in 1858. The building is constructed of rendered flint with ashlar quoins, and has thatched roofs. It comprises a west tower, a nave, a north aisle, and a chancel.
The west tower is octagonal, with two stages. It has roll-moulded shafts at the corners, reappearing on moulded plinths below the base course. A two-light reticulated window sits on the west face, with an arched trefoil window above. A string course runs along the belfry stage. There are two-light louvred Y belfry windows; similar windows are present on alternating faces but have been blocked with knapped flint. The tower is topped with a 17th-century brick parapet with stepped crenellations. The west wall of the nave is original, built of carstone masonry from the 12th century.
A 15th-century gabled south porch has a lead roof. The arched opening is hollow and has a chamfered moulding, while the inner doorway is wave-moulded. Blocked east and west windows are present within the porch. The nave has four-panel traceried windows of two or three lights, with segmental or depressed arches. The chancel has a lower roof and is lit by three two-light Y windows with hoods on head stops. An arched priest's door has brick repairs. The east wall of the chancel was rebuilt in the 19th century using brick, with a flat buttress to the south. A flint base course is present. It features a three-light intersecting east window and one Y window to the north.
The north aisle has a three-light intersecting window to the east, and three similar windows to the north wall, separated by flat buttresses, those at the corners being diagonal. A 12th-century north door has a round arch decorated with cable and stud, supported on single orders of shafts with scalloped capitals and square imposts. It has a 17th-century timber door. Two pointed two-light 19th-century windows complete the aisle's fenestration.
Inside, a four-bay north arcade dates from the late 14th century. It has quatrefoil piers with hollow fillets between lobes, on moulded bases and polygonal plinths. There are moulded capitals and double hollow chamfered arches. The nave roof is scissor-braced and plastered. The aisle roof has a crenellated wall plate, a moulded purlin, and transverse beams on arched braces with traceried spandrels. A 15th-century octagonal font has alternating designs of shields in split cusped circles and encircled quatrefoils, with grotesque heads below and a plinth with engaged columns. The east end of the aisle features a base of a 15th-century screen, consisting of two tiers of paired blind lights with carved and repainted tracery. The nave seating dates back to 1858. The chancel has 15th-century stall ends with poppyhead carvings of prophets. The chancel has a boarded, scissor-braced roof. Some 15th-century glass remains in the heads of the two eastern windows of the south nave. The Royal Arms of George III are displayed on the west wall, alongside a 15th-century inner south door.
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