NHER 3104 (Building record) - St Andrew's Church, Guist

St Andrew's Church.

May 1960. Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description:
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar dressings. Plaintile roofs. Western tower; nave with north aisle and south porch; chancel. Un- buttressed tower, probably C16, with canted stair turret to south. Restored 2-light Y-traceried west window, quatrefoil sound holes, plain 2-light bell- openings with 4-centred heads and parapet. Nave with one 2-light and one 3-light panel traceried late Perpendicular windows with flat heads to south. North aisle of 1889 with 5 trefoil lancets. C13 plain chamfered south door with hood mould. Chancel of 1881 by H.Green of Norwich. Porch of 1907.' interior. Perpendicular tower arch with 3 plain chamfered orders on semi- circular responds. North arcade of 1889 in Early English style with columns and ovolo-moulded arches. Good C18 and C19 wall tablets in chancel to the Norris and Wigget families. 2 windows with Victorian stained glass.
Information from (S1).
H. Mellor (HES), 26 June 2017.

26 February 1999. Observation of soakaway pit.
Newly dug 5m north of east end of nave 600m topsoil over chalky boulder clay, no finds. Many mole hills in most areas of churchyard revealed no finds.
A. Rogerson (NLA), 26 February 1999.

Unbuttressed west tower with Perpendicular top, the belfry windows under four centred heads. South nave with panel traceried Perpendicular windows, but the body of the church externally all renewed. The north aisle was rebuilt in 1889 and given five trefoiled lancets and a matching Early English arcade on drum piers; the chancel was already rebuilt in 1881 by H. J. Green. The porch is of 1907.
Information from (S2).
For further information see list description.
M. Dennis (NLA), 20 January 2006.