Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1961. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1961
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Michael, Brampton
- OS grid reference
- TG 229 240
- Coordinates
- 52.76802, 1.30378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Michael is a parish church located in Brampton Oxnead. It features flint construction with stone dressings and some plastering, along with red brick additions. The roof is plain-tiled and extends continuously over the nave and chancel. The church includes a west tower, nave, chancel, north and south porches, and a northeast chapel that is in ruins, with a lancet window in the east wall. The building has 13th-century origins, with additions made in the late 16th and 18th centuries.
The west tower is likely from the 13th century, with a late 16th-century upper stage that has an embattled parapet. It features two-light sound openings with hollow-chamfered brick mullions and reveals, as well as stage-buttresses marking the division between the nave and chancel. The south wall of the chancel includes two lancet windows and a priest's door, while the east wall has massive brick angle-buttresses. The east gable, made of 18th-century crow-stepped brick, displays the date "H.S. 1711" in its tie-irons. The east window, added in the 19th century, features geometrical tracery.
The south porch, constructed of brick and plastered over, has a pantiled roof with a parapeted gable and dates from the 18th century. The north porch, built in the 17th century, has a crow-stepped gable and a semi-circular headed doorway adorned with moulded brick pilasters and an entablature. Inside, there are remains of a rood stair in the south wall. The chancel houses notable monuments to the Paston family, including an alabaster tomb-chest for Sir Clement Paston, who died in 1597, featuring a figure in full armor reclining beside a half-rolled mat and a kneeling figure of his wife, Alice. There is also a marble bust of Lady Katherine Paston, who died in 1636, created by Nicholas Stone, set on a pedestal with a segmental pediment above.
Local climate
Church of St Michael receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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