Church of St Martin at Palace is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C11, C15 and C16 Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church of St Martin at Palace
- WRENN ID
- tattered-chimney-gorse
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Constituency
- Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- C11, C15 and C16
- Address
- Church of St Martin at Palace, St Martin at Palace Plain, NR3 1RN
- OS grid reference
- TG 234 091
- Coordinates
- 52.6337, 1.30108
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Martin-at-Palace is a historic building that dates back to the 11th, 15th, and 16th centuries. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features a lead roof. The church has a two-stage tower and includes a nave and chancel, with north and south aisles that do not extend to the east wall. There is a south porch and an unbuttressed three-stage tower.
The west façade showcases a three-light perpendicular window, square sound holes with tracery, and two-light reticulated tracery belfry windows. The crenellated parapet is adorned with tracery panels and corner pinnacles. The nave has clerestory windows that are square with quatrefoil tracery, and there is a two-storeyed porch attached to the aisle, featuring a remade outer doorway and two windows above.
In addition, there are two three-light re-faced perpendicular windows in the nave and one identical window in the chancel aisle. The north aisle contains a two-light decorated west window and two 19th-century chancel windows. The east end of the aisles features two three-light perpendicular windows. The former unaisled chancel has long and short quoins, and the east window is a three-light perpendicular design with a pointed arch. The church is currently redundant and used as a store.
Local climate
Church of St Martin at Palace 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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