Church of St Botolph is a Grade I listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 June 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Botolph
- WRENN ID
- weathered-newel-holly
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- South West Norfolk MP: Terry Jermy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1960
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Botolph, Beachamwell
- OS grid reference
- TF 761 051
- Coordinates
- 52.6152, 0.6003
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Botolph is a redundant church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint, partly rendered, with ashlar dressings and features a copper roof. The nave and chancel are aligned together. The west wall includes a 14th-century cusped lancet window and a former bell cote above it. The south wall has a Norman doorway with three orders, featuring chevron and roll moulding, along with chip carving. Three scallop capitals remain, which relate to former nook shafts. The hood mould above the doorway is chip carved with beast's head label stops. The south wall also has various windows: a loop with a two-centred head, a wide lancet, a two-light cusped Y-traceried window, and a 15th-century two-light window with a flat head. The east window is a 14th-century three-light window with reticulated tracery. To the north, there is a two-light cusped Y-traceried window and a blocked plain chamfered doorway.
Inside, there is a stoup located to the east of the south doorway, a 13th-century roll moulded piscina at the east end, and a small arched aumbry opposite. The church contains some fine late medieval benches with poppy head ends and traceried backs, along with a surviving figurative armrest carving of a dog and shepherd, which retains traces of original paint. There is a 17th-century two-tier pulpit with a polygonal preaching box, featuring carved lunettes and fluting on the clerk's desk, as well as finely carved friezes on the preaching box. The 17th-century communion rails have turned baluster shafts.
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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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