Church of St. Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the Great Yarmouth local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St. Andrew
- WRENN ID
- keen-hammer-spindle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Great Yarmouth
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Andrew is a parish church with a 13th-century west tower, a Decorated nave, and a continuous chancel. It underwent restoration between 1856 and 1858, with further work on the chancel from 1910 to 1915. The building is constructed from quaternary and quarry flint, chert, Lincolnshire limestone ashlar, chalk elements, and brick, topped with a thatched roof.
The tower is a three-stage, unbuttressed square structure featuring a square light on the west side and louvred two-light Y traceried belfry windows. The belfry windows and the triple crenellated brick parapet likely date from around 1500, when an appropriate bequest was recorded. There is a 18th-century gabled brick south porch, which has a 19th-century door fitted with a 14th-century starred iron flushing plate and puller. The nave is supported by stepped buttresses, with the south side displaying two two-light 14th-century ogeed windows and one three-light 15th-century Perpendicular window under a stilted arch. The north side features an arched nave doorway and two two-light 14th-century ogeed windows. The chancel has diagonal eastern buttresses and flanks with two two-light ogeed windows each, along with a three-light cusped intersecting east window and a priests' door to the south.
Inside, there is a simple chamfered tower arch that is blocked and has a doorway. The nave roof, constructed between 1856 and 1858, is scissor braced, and there is a plain 20th-century font. The chancel lacks a chancel arch and has a boarded scissor braced roof from the 19th century. Features include stepped sedilia and a cinquefoiled piscina. The nave contains six pierced-back benches with poppyheads, and the arm rests are carved with animals and a kneeling woman at prayer. The chancel floor has brasses commemorating Edmund Clere and his wife Elizabeth from 1488, Thomas Gerard from 1506, Ann Cygges, widow of Sir Thomas Clere, from 1570, and Anne Heigham and her children, wife of Thomas Clere, from 1614.
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