Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 December 1985. A Medieval Church.
Church Of All Saints
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 December 1985
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church that dates back to the late 13th century, featuring a west tower, a nave and south aisle from around 1300, and a late 14th-century chancel. It was restored in 1863 and is constructed from carstone, flint, rubble, and some brick, with slate roofs. The tower is a three-stage unbuttressed structure that appears as two stages externally, with a cusped lancet as the west window and slit lights for the ringing chamber on the north and south sides. There is a string course at the belfry stage and two-light cusped Y-tracery belfry windows. The tower is topped with a 17th-century brick parapet featuring stone quoins and crocketed corner pinnacles.
The south aisle has a rebuilt brick and rubble parapet and a two-light ogeed square-headed west window. The gabled south porch is made of chequered brick and flintwork, with parapets that obscure the roof. Diagonal buttresses and reused stone coping are present at the gable head, along with brick side lancets. The aisle has three square-headed windows with two or three lights, and the centre window is from the 19th century. The aisle's east window consists of three lights. The nave and chancel have high eastern gable parapets, and the chancel south window is a two-light ogee design with cusped and sub-cusped vesica. There is a depressed arched priests' door, and diagonal eastern buttresses frame a three-light panel tracery Perpendicular east window, with a two-light chancel north window.
The north nave features five stepped brick buttresses, with the eastern one incorporating remains of brick rood stairs. There are two three-light square-headed windows with ogee lights and one three-light panel traceried window under a four-centred arch, along with a blocked north door.
Inside, the church has a four-bay south arcade supported by octagonal piers on plinths, with moulded capitals and triple chamfered arches. The chancel arch is double chamfered and dies into the wall. The nave roof, which is a single scissor-braced design, dates from 1863, while the aisle roof features an 18th-century butt purlin. There are 17 benches in the nave dated 1627, each with single poppyheads and incised decoration on the top rails of the backs. An early 18th-century octagonal pulpit has a carved cornice rail, and the late 14th-century chancel screen features four bays on each side of a central opening above a plain dado, with a frieze of spiky tracery based on ogee curves below the top rail. The chancel roof, which is a crown post design from 1863, rests on large arched braces, and there is a plain octagonal font from the 14th century.
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