Parish Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Broadland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 May 1961. Church. 1 related planning application.
Parish Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- crooked-brick-violet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Broadland
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 May 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of All Saints, Church Street, Horsford
- OS grid reference
- TG 196 153
- Coordinates
- 52.69154, 1.2493
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The parish church of All Saints is a medieval building with later alterations, situated on Church Street in Horsford. Constructed primarily of flint, with brick rendering and stone dressings, the roof is a mix of pantiles and thatch. The church comprises a west tower, north aisle, south porch, nave, and chancel.
The west tower, dating from 1456, is three stages high with diagonal buttresses and a stair turret to the northeast. It features a two-light Perpendicular window on the west side, squared traceried sound holes with hood moulds, two-light bell openings with Reticulated tracery, and a battlemented flushwork parapet.
The north aisle was constructed in 1869, with gabled ends to the east and west. It has three bays featuring rectangular-headed windows of two and three lights with Reticulated style tracery and parapet gables. A 20th-century boiler house adjoins its west end. A 13th-century doorway is located at the west end of the nave. The south porch is a 19th-century addition in Perpendicular style.
The nave is four bays wide, with three-light Perpendicular windows, some of which appear heavily restored, featuring rectangular heads and flowing tracery incorporating a central quatrefoil. The chancel is mostly rendered and bears the date 1705 in the flintwork of the gable. It has a double lancet to the north, stepped three-light lancets to the east, a central southern priest's door with a small chamfered rectangular window to the west, and parapet gables.
The interior is largely 19th century. The tower arch is composed of three elements, suggesting at least two phases of construction. A 15th-century stair tower door retains studded cover strips. A stoup is positioned to the east of the south door. The church has a 19th-century three-bay north arcade and scissor trussed roofs. A 19th-century chancel arch is also present. Inside the north chancel wall is a tomb recess. A 13th-century piscina with a cusped head, a stone battlemented candle holder on the north wall, and a heavily restored 15th-century screen are also notable features. 20th-century altar rails incorporate late 17th-century stair balusters. A 12th-century font has a rectangular bowl of Purbeck marble with a blind arcade on five columns and a modern base. Medieval glass fragments are located in a south nave window. A south-east nave window was created by Zettler of Munich around 1893. A wall monument to Jane Maria Day, who died in 1777, is by J. Wilton, depicting an urn on a plinth with a wreath. Records show bequests from 1447, 1457, 1471, and 1473 designated "for Reparation of Church and Tower."
Local climate
Parish Church of All Saints 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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