Church of St Andrew, Frenze is a Grade I listed building in the South Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1959. A {} Church.

Church of St Andrew, Frenze

WRENN ID
grim-jamb-rye
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
South Norfolk
Constituency
Waveney Valley MP: Adrian Ramsay (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1959
Type
Church
Period
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Address
Church of St Andrew, Frenze, Dark Lane, Scole
OS grid reference
TM 135 804
Coordinates
52.38023, 1.13606
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Andrew in Frenze is an early 14th-century building featuring a nave without a chancel. At the west end of the nave, there is a modern bellcote. The nave windows from the early 14th century include two-light windows on the south and west sides with Y-tracery and cusped heads, while the north and east windows have two and three lights respectively, adorned with reticulated tracery.

The south porch, built in the early 16th century, is made of brick and includes diagonal buttresses, a later gable facing, and two-light side windows with brick mullions and four-centred arch heads. Inside, there is a large pulpit from the early 17th century, featuring a back panel and a polygonal tester with pendants. The church also contains an early 17th-century manorial box pew, several 15th-century benches—one with a traceried front and ends with poppy-heads—and a 14th-century octagonal font with flat traceried sides. Additionally, there are several brasses from the late 15th and early 16th centuries.

Local climate

Church of St Andrew, Frenze sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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