Church of St Michael is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Michael

WRENN ID
drifting-fireplace-candle
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
North Norfolk
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The Church of St Michael is a parish church largely dating to the 12th century, with a chancel constructed around 1300. A south aisle from the 14th century was demolished before the 19th century, and a clerestory and west tower were added in the 15th century. The church underwent restoration in 1873. The north wall features 12th-century herringbone masonry constructed from iron conglomerate, retaining original quoining where it joins the chancel and tower. The remainder of the exterior is built with knapped and unknapped flint, clunch ashlar dressings, Lincolnshire Limestone elements, partially rendered, and covered by a gabled 19th-century tile roof with fishscale bands. The church comprises a nave and chancel with a west tower.

The chancel contains a three-light perpendicular-style east window (likely from 1873) and, on the south side, a two-light window with trefoil heads, alongside a one-light window dating to around 1300, flanked by offset buttresses. An organ chamber and additional buttresses were added on the north side around 1873. The nave has two geometrical-style two-light windows. A gabled north porch, with cinquefoiled lights and a pointed arched doorway, and a pointed-arched doorway with a hood mould are both features from around 1873. The three-stage west tower features angle buttresses with blank tracery, a circa 1873 west window, a stair projection to the north, two-light cinquefoiled belfry windows with perpendicular tracery, and gargoyles atop a flushwork parapet with crocketed pinnacles.

Inside, the chancel includes a trefoil-headed piscina and drop sedilia dating back to approximately 1300, and remains of an Easter Sepulchre with modern colouring to fragmentary vaulting. The 14th-century south arcade consists of three orders with hollow chamfers, supported by octagonal piers with moulded capitals. The 15th-century tower arch has a wave-moulded outer arch set on polygonal responds with embattled capitals. The chancel features a mid-19th-century hammerbeam roof with 15th-century elements, while the nave boasts a waggon roof with scissor braces and arch-braced principles, also incorporating 15th-century components.

Notable fittings include an altar, reredos, litany desk, and sanctuary dedicated as a memorial to Captain Whiteside, who died in 1916; pews, a pulpit, a lectern, and a west screen, all dating to around 1873. An octagonal stone font contains a memorial to Theophila Fleming, who died in 1743, and the north wall displays Royal Arms of George VI. Stained glass includes 15th-century figures in the east window and 16th–17th-century Flemish glass in the south windows, transferred from Catton Hall, Norwich, in 1952.

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