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
haunted-grate-dawn
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

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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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