Church of St Maurice is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. A C14 Parish church.
Church of St Maurice
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- North Norfolk MP: Steff Aquarone (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Church of St Maurice, Church Lane, Briningham
- OS grid reference
- TG 038 343
- Coordinates
- 52.86841, 1.02764
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Maurice is a parish church with flint walls and a black pantile roof, dating from around 1300, with later additions. It features a nave and chancel, along with a three-stage south-west tower that includes a porch and four Y tracery bell-opening windows. The nave has three bays, highlighted by a 3-light switch tracery west window from the same period.
On the south wall of the nave, there is one 2-light decorated window and one 4-light decorated window showcasing elaborate curvilinear tracery and mouchettes. The north wall has a blocked north door and two 2-light decorated windows. The chancel's south wall includes two 2-light windows with straight heads, a partly exposed squint, and a priest's door. The north chancel wall has one 2-light window and a late 19th-century lean-to vestry. The chancel east window is a three-light curvilinear design with mouchettes.
Inside, the nave contains a 14th-century font and a piscina in the south nave wall. In the embrasure of the 4-light window, there are re-set 12th-century colonnettes and capitals. The chancel arch, piscina, and sedilia, adorned with ball flower mouldings, date from around 1300. Two empty niches with curvilinear designs flank the east window. The communion rail features re-used 18th-century balusters, and there is a Gothic organ from around 1800. The roofs of the nave and chancel were added in the 19th century, and the north window of the chancel is stained glass, dating from around 1850.
Local climate
Church of St Maurice receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% 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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