Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Andrew
- WRENN ID
- sharp-newel-sorrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Andrew, Cromer Road, Sustead
- OS grid reference
- TG 199 372
- Coordinates
- 52.88807, 1.26724
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* parish church located in Metton, dating back to the medieval period. It is constructed from flint and some ironbound conglomerate, featuring brick and stone dressings, with slate and glazed black pantile roofs. The church includes an early 14th-century west tower, nave, north porch, and early 14th-century chancel.
The tower is unbuttressed and embattled, consisting of three stages. It has archways on the north and south faces, which may have been used for processions, each featuring a continuous chamfered order with brick on the underside of the arch. The west window has two lights with panel tracery and brick voussoirs, set in a larger opening that is now blocked with brick. The bell-openings have Y-tracery with alternate brick and flint voussoirs, and the tower is adorned with flushwork battlements and gargoyles.
The nave, which has two bays, is buttressed, possibly with angle buttresses, though the eastern ones have been removed. The west doorway features a chamfer that merges into an arch with two rolls, while the south nave doorway has a continuous hollow-chamfer. There are two 3-light square-headed windows with panel tracery, one of which has been restored, and a similar window on the north side. The chancel, also unbuttressed, has two bays and includes a Y-tracery window to the south and a 3-light window with a square head and panel tracery, complete with a hood mould. The east window features three lights with intersecting tracery, and there are no openings on the north side. A 19th-century north porch has been added to the first bay of the nave, with a continuously chamfered doorway.
Inside, there is a large pointed opening to the tower above the doorway, a roll-moulded wall plate, and corbels, with figures on the northern corbels. The roofs were boarded in 1890. There is an ogee-headed cusped piscina with leaves on the finial and head at the base, and a font with a chamfered base and rounded bowl supported at the rear. A brass memorial to R. Doughty and his wife, who died in 1493, features figures that are 0.5 meters high.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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