Church Of St Andrew

TG 00 SW DEOPHAM CHURCH ROAD (east side) 5/17 Church of St. Andrew

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Parish church built in imitation of St. Andrew's Hingham. Begun in late C14 completed at west in early C16. Flint with stone and some brick dressings. Leaded nave roofs and plaintiled chancel roof. Western tower, aisled nave of 5 bays, chancel and south porch. Western tower of 4 stages with set-back diagonally connecting angle buttresses terminating in hexagonal crenellated turrets and decorated with chequered flushwork. Stage one with vine-scroll frieze on 3 sides above level of west door. Single west 3-light Perpendicular window. Blind 3-light Perpendicular windows at stage 3. 2-light bell-openings with curvilinear tracery and crocketted gables above with flushwork wheel tracery rising above the crenellated and flushworked parapet. Aisle and chancel side windows 2-light in Decorated style with cusped soufflets. 3-light Per- pendicular east aisle windows and a restored 5-light Perpendicular chancel east window. Simple 2-light clearstorey windows. Octagonal piers to south arcade with facetted bell capitals. Later north arcade with lozenge-shaped piers. Both arcades with 2-centred arches of 2 plain chamfered orders. Late medieval shallow-pitched roof with roll-moulded cambered ties and arched braces with traceried spandrels. 2-ordered chancel arch on head corbels. Aisle roofs partly original with roll-moulded cornices. Fine piscinae to aisle altars and main altar. C19 hammer-beam chancel roof.

Listing NGR: TG0497900474