Norwich Arts Centre is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C15 Arts centre. 3 related planning applications.
Norwich Arts Centre
- WRENN ID
- winding-alcove-khaki
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- Arts centre
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 06/03/2019
TG 2208 NE 15/725
ST. BENEDICT'S STREET (north side) No 51, Norwich Arts Centre
(Formerly listed as Premises Arts Centre, ST. BENEDICT'S STREET, previously listed as Former Church of St. Swithin)
26.2.54
GV I Former parish church, now redundant and used as Arts Centre. C14 and C15. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Lead roof. West tower pulled down in 1881. Nave and chancel in one. North and south aisles. Rood turret against north aisle. Large Edwardian vestry and hall to the east and north of the church. Small bell-turret on the west gable and four-light window. Four bays to nave and chancel with two-light decorated windows. Two-light clerestory windows with flat arches and decorated tracery. Five-light east window with a four-centre arch and decorated tracery.
Interior: hollow chamfered octagonal brick piers to north aisle. South aisle piers remade in classical cruciform section with semi-circular arches. Fine queen-post roof with arch braces springing from wall-posts supported on angel-corbels. Carved bosses at purlin and ridge levels.
Listing NGR: TG2258808832
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