Church of St. Mary
Church of St. Mary, Aldborough
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373470
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St. Mary, Aldborough
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- Date:
- 2004-07-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/12721/13
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1373470
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St. Mary
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St. Mary, Aldborough
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. Mary, Aldborough
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aldborough & Thurgarton
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 17909 33810
Details
TG 13 SE
5/7
ALDBOROUGH
Church of St. Mary
4.10.60
II*
Parish church. Medieval. Flint, ironbound conglomerate, with stone (Lincolnshire Limestone) and brick dressings. Slate roof. Nave, north aisle, south porch, chancel.
West wall with wooden bell-cote of 1906; tower fell in C18, traces of base remain. Conglomerate quoins to south west and north west corners of nave. Buttressed nave of three bays; two two-light C19 cusped windows to south in rubble and conglomerate wall. Conglomerate quoins of earlier church in third bay. North aisle wall much rebuilt in 1847 with brick-dressed buttresses and two two-light C19 windows. Chancel with priests door to south. Angle buttresses. Two-light C19 window. East window C19 three-light Perpendicular. Buttressed south porch of knapped flint to first nave bay. Doorway with attached shaft and hollows. Nave doorway has hood mould and rib-vaulted niche over with canopy.
Interior. Low north arcade formed by cutting through earlier wall. C19 roofs. C19 chancel arch. Top of rood stair over eastern nave pier. Piscina. Octagonal font. Graded II* for survival of early church plan.
Listing NGR: TG1790933810
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 14 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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