Former Church of St Saviour is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A C14 Church. 2 related planning applications.

Former Church of St Saviour

WRENN ID
veiled-mullion-heron
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Church
Address
Former Church of St Saviour, Magdalen Street, NR3 1AA
OS grid reference
TG 231 092
Coordinates
52.63516, 1.29689
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former Church of St. Saviour is a Grade I listed building located on Magdalen Street. Originally a parish church, it is now a redundant structure repurposed as a squash club. The church dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with some reworking in the 19th century. It is constructed of flint with brick and stone dressings and features a west tower, nave, and chancel, along with a south porch and a 19th-century north vestry.

The short tower is supported by two stories of diagonal buttressing and has a plain west door surround, a two-light window, and a square sound-hole with a clock face above the door. The stone crenellated parapet adds to its character. The nave consists of three bays with three-light Perpendicular windows. The single-storey porch has an outer door with triple-order mouldings and a two-centre arch that features badly worn spandrels. The porch also has a kneelered gable and diagonal buttressing. The two-bay chancel includes 19th-century Decorated windows and has a boarded scissor-brace roof.

Local climate

Former Church of St Saviour 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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