St Edmunds Church

TG 2309 SW FISHERGATE (south side) 11/337 5.6.72 St. Edmunds Church - I Former parish church now redundant. C15 and C16. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Slate roof. West tower. Nave and chancel in one. South aisle and south chapel. North porch and C19 vestry. 3-stage tower with 2-stage diagonal buttresses. 3-light perpendicular west window. Square sound holes with rose tracery and 2-light cusped belfry windows. Flat parapet. 2 and 3-light perpendicular windows to nave. Single-storey porch with gable and single angle buttresses. Scar of rood turret on north wall. Tower arch. Fine butt-purlin roof with attached arch-braces springing from wall-posts. Curving well-braces spring from alternate wall-posts. Carved bosses at the intersection of the ridge-piece and principal rafters. Building sequence:- In 1441 a south chapel was added to the aisle-less nave and chancel. This now forms the central part of the aisle. Late C15 the chapel was extended to form the south aisle and in the early C16 extended east to form chancel aisle.

Listing NGR: TG2333509164