Church of St Andrew is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A 1467 to 1518 Church.

Church of St Andrew

WRENN ID
narrow-flue-hawthorn
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 February 1954
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Andrew, St Andrew's Street
OS grid reference
TG 231 087
Coordinates
52.63034, 1.29539
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew is a parish church dating from the late 15th to early 16th century, with the tower constructed between 1467 and 1498, and the south porch added around 1469. The north porch was built circa 1474, while the main church structure was completed between 1499 and 1518. It is built of flint with stone and brick dressings, featuring ashlar facing on the nave and chancel, and has a lead roof.

The church includes a west tower, a nave and chancel that are unified, and north and south aisles with porches. A rood turret is positioned against the south aisle. The tower is four stages high, with panelled diagonal buttresses and a stair turret on the south side. The west door is topped by a badly weathered shield frieze, and there is a four-light west window with a two-centre arch. The belfry features large three-light windows with intersecting tracery.

Two-storey porches are built against the tower, aligned with the aisles. The nave and chancel consist of five bays, with an un-aisled half-bay at the east end. The windows are large four-light perpendicular types with two-centre arches, and there are eleven clerestory windows with triangular pilasters between them. The east end displays cusped flushwork below the plinth, with a stone shield frieze above, three statue niches, and two armorial shields beneath a large five-light perpendicular east window with a four-centre arch.

Small diagonal corner buttresses feature run-out concave hollows. There is a post-medieval rebuild of the vestry above the plinth at the end of the south aisle. The aisle piers are composed of four shafts with a concave moulding on the diagonal face, and there is blind cusped tracery below the clerestory windows. The roof is low-pitched with a heavy ridge-piece and single butt-purlins, featuring arch-bracing that forms a four-centre profile, springing from wall-shafts supported on angel corbels.

The Suckling Chapel in the north aisle is enclosed by an open traceried screen. Notable monuments within the church commemorate Robert Suckling (1589), Francis Rugge (1607), Robert Garsett (1613), and Sir John Sucking (1613), along with many other 18th-century monuments. The church also contains a Victorian font and pulpit.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew 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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