Church of St Clement is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Clement

WRENN ID
grey-corridor-soot
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Clement, Colegate, NR3 1DD
OS grid reference
TG 231 090
Coordinates
52.63325, 1.29664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Clement is a former parish church that is now a private chapel. It dates from the 15th and 16th centuries and is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings, topped with slate roofs. The building features a west tower, a nave, and a chancel, with a 19th-century vestry located to the north of the chancel.

The slender three-stage tower, built around 1450, has diagonal buttresses and a stair turret on the northeast corner. It includes a three-light perpendicular west window, square traceried sound-holes, and two-light belfry windows with four-centre arches, as well as a clock face on the east side. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet that features flushwork and shields.

The nave, which was rebuilt around 1550, has three bays and is adorned with three-light perpendicular windows. The cill of the west windows has been raised to accommodate the north and south doors. The two-bay chancel also features three-light perpendicular windows with four-centre arches, and the east window has reticulated tracery. Inside, the arch-braced roof has lower braces that spring from nail-posts, while wall braces spring from the wall posts and frame the recessed window panels.

Local climate

Church of St Clement 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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