Church Of St Spyridon

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SE DENE SIDE 839-1/16/32 (East side) 27/06/53 Church of St Spyridon (Formerly Listed as: DENE SIDE Church of St Spyridou (Greek Orthodox))

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Formerly known as: Church of St Peter DENE SIDE. Parish church. 1831-3. By JJ Scoles. Greek Orthodox church from 1964. Gault brick. West tower, nave, aisles and continuous chancel. Perpendicular style. EXTERIOR: 3-stage tower with an arched west door under a 3-light west window and cusped square ringing-chamber windows. Stepped angle buttresses. Second stage with a clock face to cardinal points. Twin 2-light belfry windows. Crenellated parapet. Aisles clasp west end of chancel and have their west bays devoted to entrance doors. Seven 2-light Perpendicular aisle windows north and south separated by stepped buttresses. 8 rounded lancets to the clerestory with flat buttresses between them. One lancet to chancel north and south walls and a 5-light chancel east window. Diagonal east buttresses. INTERIOR: 7-bay arcade of square piers with grooves to each side set diagonally. No capitals. Double wave-moulded arches. Flat timber roof to nave with moulded joists running into moulded wall-posts. Plain gallery at west end on circular cast-iron columns. Timber reredos and other furnishings of various dates after 1964. Font of 1907: 5 marble columns support a circular marble bowl.

Listing NGR: TG5272607101