Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1955. A C15 and C16 Church.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- empty-bronze-finch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1955
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church dating to the 15th and 16th centuries, with construction funded by bequests recorded in 1427, 1453, 1467, 1474, and 1534. It was restored between 1854 and 1877 by R.M. Phipson. The church is built of flint with limestone and Bath stone ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs. It consists of a west tower, nave, and chancel.
The three-stage west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses. The tower plinth features flushwork trefoils. It has an arched west door with wave mouldings and carved spandrels, above a four-light window with Perpendicular tracery. String courses run between the storeys. The ringing chamber has ventilation holes with openwork tracery, and the belfry has two quatrefoiled windows. A flushwork crenellated parapet with stepped merlons tops the tower. Situated to the south east is a tower stair. Chequered flushwork highlights the junctions of the buttresses, and angle buttresses are present at the west end of the nave and flanks. The gabled south porch has diagonal buttresses of similar design to those on the tower. It has wrought iron gates by Fitt and Parke of Stalham, dating to the mid-19th century, with arrowhead finials to the verticals. The inner doorway is moulded with waves and hollows, accompanied by arched side lights. The north side has an arched door with double wave moulded jambs, mirroring the three three-light Perpendicular nave windows on either side. Stepped side buttresses define the chancel and two two-light mouchette windows. An arched priests' door is located on the south side, with window jambs similarly moulded to those of the nave. Diagonal east buttresses frame a four-light Flowing east window added by Phipson.
Inside, the tower arch is double wave and hollow moulded with semi-circular responds on polygonal bases and capitals. A similar chancel arch features responds carrying a hollow and keeled roll moulded arch. A 15th-century screen with three bays on either side of a central ogeed opening is present; its bays feature ogeed and cusped lights with rising tracery mullions. The octagonal font, made of 13th-century Purbeck marble, has two arches to each facet of the bowl, supported by a central shaft and eight columns, one of which is missing. The nave roof is from the 19th century, with principals on arched braces and two tiers of staggered taper-tenoned butt purlins. The chancel roof is similar, but with only one tier of purlins. Sedilia and a piscina in the chancel feature cusped and sub-cusped arches under square hoods.
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