Church of St Etheldreda is a Grade I listed building in the Norwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1954. A Medieval Church. 8 related planning applications.

Church of St Etheldreda

WRENN ID
quiet-eave-river
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 Etheldreda, King Street
OS grid reference
TG 236 079
Coordinates
52.62309, 1.30271
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Etheldreda is a former parish church, now used as a studio. It dates back to the 12th century, with 14th and 19th-century restorations by E. Boardman. The church is constructed of flint with stone and brick dressings, and has a plain tile roof. It consists of a west tower, a nave, and a chancel. A south porch is also present. The west tower is truncated and features an octagonal top with brick quoins. The nave has four bays with reticulated tracery, largely renewed in the 19th century on the north side. A Norman doorway is located on the south side, featuring weathered capitals on the outer order, with 19th-century shafts and inner order. A blocked north door retains the remains of a Norman arch and a horizontal zig-zag band to the left. The chancel has two bays with 19th-century Y-tracery and an east window. A wall monument, originally from St. Peter Southgate, depicting groups of kneeling figures facing each other and framed by tapered pilasters, was removed and is no longer present.

Local climate

Church of St Etheldreda 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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