Church of All Saints

CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1169968
Date first listed:
16-Apr-1955
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1169968
Date first listed:
16-Apr-1955
List Entry Name:
Church of All Saints
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
North Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:
Honing
National Grid Reference:
TG 33397 29989

Details

HONING CROSTWIGHT TG 32 NW 6/65 Church of All Saints 16.4.55 - I

Parish church. Substantially early C14, restored C19. Flint (partly knapped) with ashlar dressings. Nave roof of black glazed pantiles, chancel of thatch. West tower, nave and chancel. 2 stage tower, the top stage removed 1910. Diagonal western buttresses. Pointed lancet west window. Small rectangular ringing chamber windows. Stairs at north-west corner. Triangular-headed window on east face below old roof line. Low pyramid roof to tower, tiled, of 1910. Square south porch with diagonal buttresses. Chamfered entrance arch on semi-circular responds with crenellated capitals and polygonal bases. This arch of rendered brick. Over arch a niche left and right. Plain parapet with roll moulded top. One arched lancet left of porch. 2 restored Y tracery windows to right separated by stepped buttress, repeated in north nave wall. Brick eaves cornice to nave. Eastern nave gable head on carved heads. South chancel wall pierced by 2 2-light trefoiled square-headed windows, between which are arched priests' door and wall monument to John Watts 1709 : square base below coved set-back inscription panel with architrave standing on scrolled bases. Brick dentiled chancel eaves. Diagonal east buttresses flank 3-light C14 elongated reticulated east window. One 2-light Y traceried north chancel window. North nave door with roll and chamfer mouldings. Interior. Double chamfered tower doorway. Double chamfered chancel arch with polygonal reponds and capitals. C19 scissor braced nave roof and similar chancel roof, but of heavier timbers. C13 octagonal font. Central Purbeck marble column and bowl with 8 subsidiary stone columns. Facets of bowl with 2 incised arches. Excellent late C14 wall paintings on north nave wall. To left of north doorway Annunication to The Virgin, to right of door St. Christopher. To east between nave windows the Scenes of the Passion, some no longer decipherable. These extend into jamb of eastern nave window. C15 chancel screen of 3 bays right and left of cusped ogeed central opening. Ogeed lights above dado mainly of C19. Dado with quatrefoils in base of each panel and cusped and sub-cusped arches at top in the spandrels of which are carvings of winged angels, animals, sacred heart and other subjects.

Listing NGR: TG3339729989

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Legacy System number:
224279
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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