St Margaret'S Church is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1954. A C14 and C15 Church. 6 related planning applications.
St Margaret'S Church
- WRENN ID
- still-sandstone-azure
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Norwich
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1954
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Margaret's Church is a former parish church, now unused and repurposed as a gymnasium. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries and is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings, topped with a slate roof. The church features a west tower, a nave, and a chancel with a south aisle, along with north and south porches. There is a rood-stair turret on the north side and a 19th-century vestry located to the north of the chancel.
The tower is four stages high, with diagonal buttresses on the first three stages. It has a 20th-century west door and window, square sound holes, and two-light belfry windows adorned with decorated tracery. The tower is capped with a crenellated parapet. At the west end of the aisle, there is a two-storey south porch that features attached shafts and a two-centre arch with carved spandrels leading to the outer door. Above the porch, there is a central statue niche flanked by square-headed windows at the first floor.
Inside, there is a simple tierceron-vault. The aisle contains two four-light perpendicular windows with four-centre arches, while the two-bay chancel has three-light windows with cusped intersecting tracery and four-centre arches. The east window is a three-light window from the 19th century. The arcade piers are octagonal with concave sides and four-centre arches, leading to the tower and chancel arches. The roof has a shallow pitch with single butt-purlins and curved braces that spring from wall-posts supported on corbels. The south aisle roof features wheel tracery spandrels.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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