Church of St Nicholas Shereford is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Nicholas Shereford
- WRENN ID
- graven-screen-wagtail
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas Shereford, Dunton
- OS grid reference
- TF 887 296
- Coordinates
- 52.83116, 0.80008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas in Shereford is a parish church featuring a Norman tower and nave, dating from around 1300, with later additions to the nave and chancel. The building is constructed of flint, with some carstone and stone dressings, and has a leaded tower, a slated nave, and tiled roofs for the chancel. The church includes a round tower at the west, a nave, a south porch, and a chancel. The tower has one two-light moulded brick mullioned window and two switch tracery mullioned windows, topped with a conical lead roof that has a valance. The south door is Norman, featuring two orders of shafts with capitals and five superimposed arches, two of which have roll-mouldings.
On the south wall of the nave, there is a three-light Decorated window, a splayed Norman window, and a paired lancet. The chancel has a straight-headed Decorated two-light window and another two-light switch tracery window. The south priest's door dates from around 1300. The north wall of the nave features an Early English north door from around 1300, though the shafts are missing, and two two-light switch tracery windows from the same period that have been reused in the built-up former north arcade. The east window is an elaborate Decorated three-light window with flowing tracery.
Inside, the church has a Norman round-headed tower arch with stone quoins and imposts, along with a simpler arch for the south door. There is a three-bay north arcade built into the wall, and no chancel arch. The chancel includes a south angle piscina with a colonnette that is part of the window embrasure, and the north side has an unmoulded Easter recess featuring an Early English tomb slab with a floriated cross. The Norman font has a solid base and shaft with four angle colonnettes, and a bowl with a scalloped base. The nave and chancel roofs were added in the mid-19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas Shereford receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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