Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1954. A Medieval Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- hollow-shingle-bramble
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 November 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church with a nave and chancel built in the Decorated style. The west tower was rebuilt in 1849 during a general restoration, with further restorations to the chancel in 1866 and to the nave in 1881. The church is constructed from quaternary and quarry flint and chert, featuring Lincolnshire Limestone ashlar dressings, and has plain tile roofs. The tower is circular and consists of three stages, with a cusped lancet window to the west, slits for the ringing chamber, and louvred cusped belfry lights. It has a plain parapet, diagonal stepped buttresses on the east and west sides of the nave, and two side buttresses on the flanks. The gabled south porch, dating from the 15th century, includes some flushwork decoration and diagonal buttresses. The church has two-light side windows, three two-light nave windows on the north and south sides (the north window featuring reticulation units and the south window containing subsidiary reticulation units), an arched north doorway, and a double wave moulded inner south doorway with an ogee arch and finial. The chancel features two two-light Flowing windows on the south and one on the north, all largely from the 19th century, along with north and south priests' doorways and a three-light Flowing east window of similar design.
Inside, there is a hollow chamfered and arched tower doorway, and the nave roof, which is scissor braced, was added in 1881. The chancel arch is double chamfered, and there is a 13th-century Purbeck marble font that is octagonal on a plinth, with a central drum supported by eight orbiting columns. The bowl of the font features two incised pointed arches on each facet. Late 14th-century wall paintings adorn the north nave wall, depicting St. James the Major to the west and St. Christopher to the east of the doorway, with a faint representation of the three Quick and the three Dead above and east of this. The chancel screen, dating from the 14th century, has five bays on either side of the double doors, with shafts rising to a frieze of route tournants and a 19th-century top rail. The dado is plain plank, and the chancel roof, which is arch braced, was added in 1866. There are stepped sedilia and an angle piscina in the south chancel, and a cusped ogeed tomb recess with a finial in the north chancel wall.
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