Church of the Blessed Virgin and St Andrew is a Grade I listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1961. A C15 Church.
Church of the Blessed Virgin and St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- south-paling-gorse
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of the Blessed Virgin and St Andrew, Church Street, Horsham St. Faith and Newton St. Faith
- OS grid reference
- TG 216 150
- Coordinates
- 52.68816, 1.27744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Blessed Virgin and St Andrew is a parish church primarily built in the 15th century, with an early 14th century west tower and an east wall dating to around 1200. The church features knapped flint with limestone dressings, a slate roof over the nave, and lead roofs over the chancel and aisles. It comprises a square west tower with staged diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet, along with square traceried sound holes and two-light Decorated belfry windows.
The two-storey south porch has a groined vault with a central boss depicting the crucifixion of St Andrew, and a stooled niche between two windows above the entrance, topped with a parapet featuring a stone frieze. The south aisle windows, which have been restored in the Perpendicular style, are divided by staged buttresses, while the south wall of the chancel has windows at two levels, including a low-side window with a cusped and cambered head. The east gable wall displays three stepped lancets with double plain-chamfered reveals, constructed in chequerwork flint and limestone blocks. A bellcote is situated over the east nave gable.
Inside, the nave arcades consist of seven bays from the 15th century, with seven two-light clerestory windows above. The south aisle windows are set into an arcade of four-centred arches supported by demi-octagonal piers with attached shafts. A 19th-century stone staircase leads to the upper chamber of the porch at the west end of the south aisle. The screen base, dated 1528, features twelve painted panels and an upper part with cusped ogee arches. The pulpit, dated 1480, is adorned with painted panels. The church also contains a 15th-century octagonal font with four lambs' head carvings at the base and re-cut traceried bowl panels, as well as a fine 17th-century font cover designed with four Tuscan columns supporting an entablature. A wall monument on the south side of the chancel commemorates William Fell (died 1795) and his wife Martha (died 1794). Additionally, there is a head-bracket for a Lenten veil in the chancel and a 19th-century roof featuring arch-braced principals.
Local climate
Church of the Blessed Virgin and St Andrew 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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