Church of St Simon and St Jude is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. A C14 and C15 Church. 6 related planning applications.

Church of St Simon and St Jude

WRENN ID
kindled-pedestal-kestrel
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Norwich
Constituency
Norwich South MP: Clive Lewis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Simon and St Jude, Elm Hill, NR3 1HG
OS grid reference
TG 232 089
Coordinates
52.63207, 1.29766
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Simon and St Jude is a former parish church, now used as a store, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building features a west tower, which is partly ruined and unbuttressed, along with a nave and chancel. The nave has four bays and includes a north doorway with attached shafts and a four-centre arch, leading to a two-leaf door adorned with tracery panels. The nave is illuminated by three-light perpendicular windows with two-centre arches, and there are cusped intersecting tracery windows in the two-bay nave. The east window is wide and features plain intersecting tracery, while a three-light perpendicular window is located on the south side of the chancel. Notable monuments from the 16th and 17th centuries commemorate the Pettus family, positioned on either side of the chancel arch, which has earlier mouldings encased within it.

Local climate

Church of St Simon and St Jude 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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