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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 June 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
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.
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