St Edmunds Church is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.
St Edmunds Church
- WRENN ID
- buried-corridor-winter
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1972
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- St Edmunds Church, Fishergate
- OS grid reference
- TG 233 091
- Coordinates
- 52.63427, 1.29903
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St. Edmunds Church is a former parish church that is now redundant, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. It is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings and has a slate roof. The church features a west tower, a nave and chancel combined, a south aisle, and a south chapel, along with a north porch and a 19th-century vestry.
The tower is three stages high and has two-stage diagonal buttresses. It includes a three-light perpendicular west window, square sound holes with rose tracery, and two-light cusped belfry windows, topped with a flat parapet. The nave has two and three-light perpendicular windows. The single-storey porch has a gable and single angle buttresses. There is a scar of a rood turret on the north wall, and the tower arch leads into the church.
Inside, the church boasts a fine butt-purlin roof with attached arch-braces that spring from wall-posts, and curving well-braces that also spring from alternate wall-posts. Carved bosses are present at the intersection of the ridge-piece and principal rafters. The building's history shows that in 1441, a south chapel was added to the aisle-less nave and chancel, which now forms the central part of the aisle. In the late 15th century, the chapel was extended to create the south aisle, and in the early 16th century, it was further extended east to form the chancel aisle.
Local climate
St Edmunds Church sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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