Church of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. A Medieval Church. 3 related planning applications.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
floating-thatch-plover
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Country
England
Date first listed
6 March 1959
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The Church of All Saints is a parish church largely dating from the Perpendicular period and of high quality. It is constructed of quaternary flint and chert with Lincolnshire limestone dressings, with a brick upper stage to the tower and tiled roofs. The church comprises a west tower, a three-bay aisleless nave, a south porch, and a two-bay chancel.

The west tower has a 15th-century lower stage of knapped flint with two west angle buttresses dressed with stone. It features a two-light Perpendicular west window. The belfry stage is of good-quality brick, with a 1700 date stone. Stone angle buttresses continue the 15th-century work, and a stone string course runs between the honeycomb belfry windows, which have stone imposts and red and black brick header arches. A brick string course and battlements top the belfry. The nave's walls are a mix of flint and conglomerate rubble on the north and south sides, with knapped flint gables to the east and west. The south porch is of Perpendicular design with knapped flint to the south face, a four-centred arch, and angle buttresses with set-offs and pinnacles with crocketed spirelets. A stone parapet rises to the apex with a 15th-century foliated cross, returning with central gargoyles. The nave’s south side incorporates three two-light Perpendicular windows, and the east gable features a floriated cross. The chancel’s south side has two straight-headed Perpendicular windows, and a circa 1300 priest's door. The north side of the chancel has a late 19th-century lean-to vestry with a re-used two-light straight-headed Perpendicular window. The nave’s north side has three two-light Perpendicular windows with buttresses and a Decorated arch incorporating a 15th-century door.

The interior was largely restored around 1881, including the roofs. It boasts a Perpendicular tower arch and the west window holds re-used 15th-century stained-glass fragments. The chancel arch is Perpendicular, with a blocked north rood stairs door. A piscina is set into the nave's south wall. The chancel contains two partly re-used pre-15th century bench ends, a circa 1300 angle piscina with a simple window seat sedilia. The east window is stained glass by Charles Gibbs, dating to around 1875. Stalls and benches were added around 1881. A stone font, with an octagonal stem and a bulbous, somewhat classical font suggestive of a 17th-century date, is featured along with a wooden canopy with a dove.

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