Church of St Andrew 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 Andrew

WRENN ID
ghost-flagstone-fern
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 Andrew, Station Road, Attlebridge
OS grid reference
TG 129 168
Coordinates
52.70753, 1.1507
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church located on Station Road in Attlebridge. The nave and chancel date back to around 1300, with additions from the 15th century. It is constructed of flint, with some brick and limestone dressings, and features a smut pantile roof that extends continuously over both the nave and chancel. The church includes a slim, unbuttressed west tower, a nave, chancel, south porch, and a north aisle.

The west tower has bell openings with three-centred arched heads and a string course adorned with carved rainwater spouts on the north and south sides, below a 15th-century embattled parapet. There is a single light west window with a niche of plastered brick beneath it, and a polygonal stair turret on the north side. The south porch features a parapeted gable and a hood mould with foliage stops above the doorway. The south doorway is notable for its good head stops.

The chancel fabric from around 1300 includes a flint plinth and two lancet windows, with the western window being taller and having an inserted transom that creates a low-side window. There is a blocked priest's door situated between the lancets. The east window consists of three stepped lancets under a single arch, also with good head stops on the hood mould. The aisle features a three-light Perpendicular east window that appears to be unrestored, while the two north windows under square heads are 19th-century restorations. The north doorway has head stops, and diagonal buttresses are present at the northeast and northwest corners.

The west parapet of the aisle has been rebuilt in brick. The north arcade consists of three bays with double-chamfered arches and piers that are continuous without capitals, likely from the 14th century. The roofs were rebuilt in the 19th century. The chancel arch is formed in timber and rests on stone corbels, with a squint between the north aisle and chancel. Inside the chancel, the priest's door has been blocked to create sedilia, and there is a dropped cill sedilia and piscina in the south wall. An octagonal font dated 1866 is present, along with a priest's desk featuring ten reused turned balusters with acanthus leaf carving.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% 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 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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