Church of St Thomas
CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1169955
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1169955
- Date first listed:
- 30-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Thomas
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST THOMAS, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Breckland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Foxley
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 03952 21714
Details
TG 02 SW FOXLEY THE STREET
5/15 Church of St.Thomas 30/5/60
- II*
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Slate and pantile roofs. Western tower, aisleless nave with south porch and chancel. C14 western tower with diagonal buttresses. Rect- angular projecting stair turret to south with little quatrefoil windows. C19 2-light plate-traceried west window. C14 2-light bell-openings with' very low transoms forming square lights which are filled with knapped flint. Crenellated parapet with former tall corner pinnacles. Buttressed nave with 4 3-light panel-traceried Perpendicular windows. C14 south doorway with dying mouldings and carved label stops. Plain north door. C13 chancel with 3 lancets and a 3-light Y-traceried east window. One later 2-light panel traceried window to south. Priest's door. to south. Interior. Tower and chancel arches plain chamfered with polygonal responds. Simple cusped chancel piscina. Damaged Clschancel screen with 4 fine painted dado panels. Double decker pulpit with a C17 clerk's desk'and pulpit box probably Victorian. 5 box pews to east and 10 crudely carved poppy-head bench ends (probably C16). C14 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels. Early C19 western gallery. C17 communion rail. Medieval south door with fielded vertical panels and cover strips. Fragments of medieval stained glass in north-west nave window.
Listing NGR: TG0395221714
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 220667
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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