Church Of St Mary is a Grade I listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church Of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- vast-quoin-martin
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 October 1960
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features a tiled roof. The building includes a west tower, a nave, a continuous chancel, and a south porch. The 14th-century tower is embattled and has two stages, with diagonal buttresses on the west side. The west window is a three-light Decorated reticulated design, and there are slit openings in the ringing chamber, along with two-light Perpendicular bell openings that have panel tracery. The nave, which is buttressed and consists of three bays, shows evidence of an earlier, shallower pitched roof line at the southwest and northwest corners. On the south side, there are two three-light Decorated windows with cusped reticulated tracery from the early 14th century, while the north side features a doorway followed by two similar 14th-century windows. The chancel is also buttressed and has one similar 14th-century window on both the north and south sides, with a brick priest's doorway under a hood mould on the north side. The porch was added during a restoration in 1864 and is located at the first bay of the nave. The nave doorway has a hood mould and a simple arched niche above it, which retains traces of red paint.
Inside, the church has a medieval arch-braced roof with an embattled wall-plate and simple ashlaring. The tower arch features octagonal shafts, while there are no architectural markings in the chancel. The chancel roof, likely from the 17th century, has straight braces that curve to form a continuous arch with collars, probably replacing earlier braces. A 13th-century octagonal font is supported on shafts, and there is a memorial brass from 1562 commemorating a man with 19 children.
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