ST MARGARET'S CHURCH

ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST BENEDICT'S STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1051898
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:: ST MARGARET'S CHURCH
Statutory Address:: ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST BENEDICT'S STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1051898
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:: ST MARGARET'S CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST BENEDICT'S STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: ST MARGARET'S CHURCH, ST BENEDICT'S STREET

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: Norwich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TG 22657 08812

Details

TG 2208 NE ST. BENEDICT'S STREET (north side) 15/722 25.2.54 St. Margaret's Church GV I Former parish church, now redundant and used as gymnasium. C14 and C15. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Slate roof. West tower. Nave and chancel with south aisle. North and south porches. Rood-stair turret on north side. C19 vestry north of chancel. 4-stage tower with diagonal buttresses to first three stages. C20 west door and window. Square sound holes and 2-light belfry windows with decorated tracery. Crenellated parapet. 2-storey south porch at west end of aisle with attached shafts and 2-centre arch with carved spandrels to outer door. Central statue niche with flanking square-headed windows at first floor. Simple tierceron-vault inside. 2 4-light perpendicular windows with 4-centre arches to aisle. 2-bay chancel with 3-light windows having cusped intersecting tracery and 4-centre arches. 3-light C19 east window. Octagonal arcade piers having concave sides and 4-centre arches. Tower and chancel arches. Shallow pitch single butt-purlin roof with curved braces springing from wall-posts supported on corbels. The south aisle roof has wheel tracery spandrels.

Listing NGR: TG2265708812

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Legacy System number:: 229494
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.