Christchurch
CHRISTCHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390595
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch
- Statutory Address:
- CHRISTCHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390595
- Date first listed:
- 01-Sept-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Christchurch
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHRISTCHURCH
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:
- CHRISTCHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Northwold
- National Grid Reference:
- TL7163999263
Details
534/0/10001
01-SEP-03
NORTHWOLD
WHITTINGTON
Christchurch
II
Church. 1874-5. By RM Phipson. Random knapped flint with limestone and some brick dressings. Plain tile roof in lines of two alternating shades of tile. Stone coped gables with kneelers and decorative ridge tiles. Plan of nave with chancel in one. West porch flanked by recessed porticus under lean-to roofs. Buttresses with set-offs. Windows have fine decorated tracery with curvilinear elements.
EXTERIOR. Fine 4-light east window with delicate tracery of trilobes set in spherical triangles. Cross finial on gable. 4 3-light nave windows. West wall has 3-light window with gable surmounted by moulded stone bell-cote crowned with a foliated cross. Below is the unusual gabled porch feature with moulded 2-centre arched doorway surmounted by an elaborate cross and the porticus either side with a buttress as the end walls.
INTERIOR. Elaborate roof divided into 7 bays by principal arch-braced trusses on wall posts with intermediate scissor-braced trusses. Vestry formed by carved wooden screen in Gothic manner around entrance to north western porticus. Original moulded pine pews and carved polygonal pulpit. Low communion rail. Carved royal arms recessed above west door.
A finely detailed and virtually unaltered church by the prolific architect Richard Makilwaine Phipson, (1827-84), who was well-known for restorations and new buildings mainly in East Anglia.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490579
- 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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