Church of St. Martin

TG 2448 8/27

OVERSTRAND CROMER ROAD Church of St. Martin

4.10.60

II*

Parish church. Medieval, restored from ruin in early C20. Quaternary and Quarry flint and chert with Lincolnshire Limestone and brick dressings. Slate roofs. West tower, nave, north aisle, chancel, south porch.

Embattled tower with diagonal buttresses. West door with chamfered reveals rolls and fillets to arch, hollows between. Two-light early C20 west window. Cusped roundels to ringing chamber openings; two-light C20 bell openings, brick edged vent; gargoyles; flushwork battlements. Three bay nave; one early C20 three-light Perpendicular window and one restored window with demitransoms under four-centred arch with brick and flint voussoirs to south. All restoration to north. Two bay chancel with two restored three-light windows with demi-transoms. C20 priest's door. Flushwork beneath C20 five-light east window. Porch to first nave bay.

Interior. Roofs of c1910. Medieval brick tower arch with continuous brick chamfer; inner order on corbels. C20 aisle and arcade but north nave door left in position and now inside church having chamfered reveal merging to roll-moulded arch; four-centred brick rere-arch; stoop. Stoop beside south door. Brick reveals to wafer oven in south wall of tower. C20 chancel arch and rood stair. Restored ogee arched piscina with remains of arch for sedilia.

Listing NGR: TG2407640764