Church Of St Mary Barningham Winter

MATLASKE BARNINGHAM TQ 13 NW 3/65 Church of St. Mary, Barningham Winter 4.10.60 GV II*

Parish church in grounds of Barningham Hall. Medieval and 1830, partly ruined. Flint with some iron conglomerate, plain tiles. West tower, nave and south porch in ruins. Chancel in use with west addition of 1830. Diagonal buttresses with stone dressings to full height tower; west window and bell stage windows of 2 lights with cusped heads under a quatrefoil; tall arch to nave with chamfered jambs and polygonal shafts; octagonal Purbeck marble font with sloping faces on a fat octagonal stem. Roofless south porch; marble coffin lid at threshold; moulded arch of jambs only with inner round shafts and capitals. South doorway has hollow chamfered arch with shallow roll moulding. North doorway of hollow chamfered arch on plain chamfered jambs. Diagonal buttresses to nave; no north opening; no south wall. Addition of 1830 within nave of knapped and galletted flint with plain tiles to roof; crow stepped gables with medieval pierced stone quatrefoil and embattled parapet; west doorway of 4-centred arch having foliage and Mott arms in spandrels, lable stops inscribed ITM (John Thurston Mott 1785 - 1847) and dated 1830; 3-light window above under 4-centred arch. Chancel of uncoursed flint with diagonal buttresses. Crow stepped gables in red brick, embattled parapet in gault brick; small blocked opening in west wall with brick dressings; two 2-light Reticulated traceried windows to north and south, those to north side renewed. Central blocked priests door to south has ogee head mould with trefoil finial. 3-light Reticulated east window. Interior: boarded roof with carved bases of early C20. Gallery to west of chancel arch in 1830 addition. Piscina and sedilia in one arcade with free standing slender piers having double roll moulded arches under continuous hood mould, trefoil headed 4th arch. Fragments of C15 glass in north window (west); fragments of Dutch glass dated 1613 in north window, east, from Barningham Hall inserted 1955; Charles I achievement in east window. Military brass to John Wynter, c1412, London D, on south wall, restored and mounted on wood. Memorial reredos in Portland stone showing soldiers of 1914-18 war beneath the cross.

Listing NGR: TG1466535680