Church of All Saints Including Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 July 1958. Church.

Church of All Saints Including Tower

WRENN ID
noble-pedestal-raven
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Breckland
Constituency
Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
16 July 1958
Type
Church
Address
Church of All Saints Including Tower, Quidenham
OS grid reference
TM 019 913
Coordinates
52.48269, 0.97327
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints, including its tower, is a parish church located in Quidenham, Hargaham. It dates back to the early 14th century, with alterations made in the 15th century and restoration completed in 1874. The church is constructed from flint, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and has plain tiled roofs.

The nave originally had two western bays that collapsed in the mid-18th century, leaving the west tower standing alone. The chancel is lower than the nave, which has a parapeted east gable. The tower is unbuttressed and consists of three stages, with some medieval render still visible. It features a three-light Perpendicular west window with remnants of tracery, single arched lancets in the ringing chamber, and square belfry windows with diagonal ogeed quatrefoils. A brick parapet, likely from the 17th century, crowns the tower.

Inside, there is a double chamfered tower arch leading to the nave, supported by moulded corbels. The roof line of the nave is visible on the east face. The west wall of the nave has been rebuilt a bay to the west of the chancel arch, using coursed flint and incorporating a reused 14th-century door arch with filleted rolls and a hood on head stops. The north and south walls project westward.

The church features a 20th-century timber bell-cote at the southwest corner, flat east nave buttresses, and two two-light 19th-century Perpendicular windows under hoods with labels on the north and south sides. There is also a square low side window on the south chancel wall, an arched Priest's door, and an external squint. The east end of the chancel has diagonal buttresses and a three-light Perpendicular window, along with a smaller similar window on the north side. A 19th-century lean-to vestry includes paired trefoil lancets on the eastern side, while to the west of the vestry is an original paired trefoil lancet window under a super arch.

Inside, the pews and the scissor-braced and boarded roofs of the chancel and nave were installed in 1874. The chancel contains an angle piscina with double ogeed arches and mouchette tracery, along with a painted and stencilled dado at the east end. The floor features a series of memorial slabs, and there is a decagonal plain font on a circular stem with decagonal moulded astragals and base.

Local climate

Church of All Saints Including Tower 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 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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