NHER 2155 (Building record) - St Andrew's Church, Little Snoring

Detached round tower, attached to earlier church with ironbound conglomerate. (S1) says pre-Conquest but (S2) says Saxo-Norman.

1962. From church two pieces of ironbound conglomerate.

Letter in (S3) suggests font is 8th to 9th century though it is usually called Norman.

[1] notes a blocked triangular-headed opening over the tower arch, and blocked large windows pierced by 14th century lancets, on the detached tower.
E. Rose (NAU), 1983.

1987. Organ, said to be unique, by C. Howard of Fakenham about 1810, restored. See (S4).
E. Rose (NAU), 15 July 1987

10 June 1989. On west side of footpath leading south from church, and about 10m north of southern churchyard boundary.
Context 2: sherd of glazed Grimston ware in four sub-sherds with recent breaks.
Found and identified by A.Rogerson (NLA), 9 February 1990.

1 February 2000. Drainage trench revealed the foundation of the east wall of the possible porticus on the north side of the church. See report and sketch plan (S6) in file.
See also (S11).
D. Gurney (NLA), 2 February 2000

Press cuttings (S3),(S4) and (S5) in file. Appropriate section from (S7) in file.

This is one of the sixty five Norfolk churches selected for (S8).
See (S9).
D. Gurney (NLA), 17 February 2006.

The walls are principally made up of rubble (mainly flint, but with conglomerate sandstone and brick) and coursed red brickwork. The dressed stonework is mostly in limestone or various periods and origins, principally from Barnack in Lincolnshire and Caen in Normandy. The roofing is in glazed black and unglazed red pantiles. Significant works in the late 18th century and late 19th century restoration were limited due to a lack of funds. Between 1730 and 1765, Blomefield suggests that the tower contained three bells, the nave was covered in lead whilst the chancel was tiled and that there had historically been a 16th century chapel of St Anthony in or attached to St Andrew’s. In 1772 a survey proposed that the nave was re-roofed in blue pantiles. It also suggested that the round tower was ruinous in the upper part and therefore too weak to support the three bells. The proposal for this was to take down part of the steeple and to make the space fit for hanging one bell. A large section of the north-west wall was rebuilt, or re-skinned, with red brick, whilst the remaining wall reverts to the original flint rubble. The blocked door on the north wall of the nave and the 15th century three-light perpendicular window appear to have been repaired before 1772 due to the use of the English bond. It is suggested that the date for this work coincides with the demolition of the associated structure to the north.
The heads of the windows along the north elevation of the chancel are carved from a yellower Bath-type stone, whilst the rest of the moulding is in the whiter stone found elsewhere in the building. These were possibly re-cut in the 1880 restoration. The south chancel wall also has two two-light windows which have had their heads replaced with Victorian work in a different stone.
See (S10).
C. Kennett (NLA), 19 August 2010.