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. 7 related planning applications.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Church Road, Wood Norton, NR20 5BD
- OS grid reference
- TG 010 277
- Coordinates
- 52.81007, 0.98171
- 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.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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