Church of All Saints 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 All Saints

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 June 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of All Saints, Newton by Castle Acre
OS grid reference
TF 830 155
Coordinates
52.70626, 0.70833
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints, formerly known as the Church of St Mary, is a parish church dating from the 11th century and later. It is constructed of flint with limestone, carstone, and ferruginous conglomerate dressings, topped with pantile and wood shingle roofs. The church features an aisleless nave, a narrower axial tower, and a chancel.

Notable architectural elements include a 14th-century three-light west window with reticulated tracery, a blocked doorway beneath it, and a blocked plain chamfered north doorway from the same period. The south doorway, also from the 14th century, has two plain chamfered orders with a hood mould. There are two pairs of blocked 11th-century loops with carstone arched lintels positioned towards the middle of the nave on the north and south sides. The church has two 15th-century two-light south windows with flat heads and ogee tracery.

The 11th-century tower shows evidence of a now-removed south transept, with a blocked archway featuring a lancet on the ground floor and a sloping dripstone for the former transept roof. At the first floor, there is a reduced double splayed window. The twin bell-openings have been heavily restored, featuring triangular heads and mid-wall piers made of flint and mortar on the west and north sides, with carstone shafts on the south and east. The south and east openings are adorned with cubic capitals that have chamfered-off angles, pronounced astragals, and simple conical bases. The tower is topped with a pyramidal shingle roof.

The chancel includes a 14th-century two-light east window with a soufflet and a 14th-century cusped lancet on the north side. A piece of limestone, possibly a former arched window jamb, has been re-used in the north wall and features drilled holes for a wooden lattice.

Inside, the eastern tower arch is original, featuring a roughly semicircular headed arch on chamfered imposts and sloping jambs. The western tower arch, from the 14th century, has a double-ogee moulding and an original triangular-headed doorway above. There is a surviving rood stair in the north-west angle of the tower. The chancel contains a simple broken piscina on the east wall and a 14th-century aumbry to the north.

Local climate

Church of All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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