Church Of All Saints is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. A Medieval Parish church.
Church Of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- dark-chamber-brook
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Parish church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a parish church with origins dating back to before 1100, featuring a west tower and nave gable. The belfry was added around 1300, with further construction in the 14th and 15th centuries for the nave and north aisle, and the chancel also dates to around 1300. A south porch was added in the mid-19th century. The church is built of flint with stone dressings, and the roofs of the nave and chancel are slated, featuring brick dentil cornices from the early to mid-19th century.
The west tower has a blocked arch and a blocked window on the inside of the west wall, with traces of openings on the exterior to the north and south, and flint quoins on the west side. The tower is adorned with four decorated two-light belfry windows, three of which are missing tracery. The west face is supported by three massive buttresses from the 16th or 17th century, made of knapped flint with brick dressings, which obscure the decorated west window. The tower is topped with a conical leaded roof and a weather vane.
On the south side of the nave, there are two three-light Perpendicular windows and two buttresses. The south porch, built in 1862, features stone banding, while the south door is from the 14th century. The chancel includes a south window with switch tracery, a north priest's door, and a two-light decorated window. The east window is a five-light design with intersected tracery and cusping, featuring a fully decorated quatrefoil in a circle at the apex.
The north aisle has a four-bay layout with a two-light decorated east window, a three-light Perpendicular window, and a three-light straight-headed decorated window. There is also a blocked decorated north door and a two-light decorated west window. Inside, the church features a four-bay north arcade with octagonal decorated piers and double hollow chamfered arches. The north side has four two-light Perpendicular clerestorey windows, although these are blocked due to the heightened pitch of the aisle roof added in the 19th century.
The church has a 19th-century king post roof with exposed principals and a plaster ceiling. C15 poppyhead benches have been restored, and there is a rood beam with braces springing from stone corbels, along with a painted dado of the rood screen, both dating to the 15th century. Some panels from the screen have been incorporated into the pulpit. The chancel arch is in the Perpendicular style, and there is a piscina and sedilia that consists of a simple arched recess. The chancel roof was restored in the 19th century by William Butterfield.
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