NHER 9996 (Building record) - All Saints' Church, Wreningham
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
Location
| Map sheet | TM19NE |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WRENINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
All Saints' Church, Wreningham.
November 1959. Listed, Grade I.
Listing Description:
Parish church. Medieval and 1853. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Plaintiled roofs. West tower; nave with north chapel of 1853 and south porch; chancel. Unbuttressed west tower with upper half rebuilt in 1853. Badly worn carving of griffon? in brick niche on west face. One three-light and one two-light Perpendicular windows to south side of nave with mouchettes below four-centred arches. Two similar two-light windows re-set in north chapel. Chancel with four two-light windows, probably restorations, and a three-light Y-traceried east window, probably 18th century. 15th-century repaired archbraced nave and chancel roofs with roll-moulded wall-plates and single rolls flanked by hollow chamfers to principal beams. Four carved corbels of angels carrying shields supporting the 2 trusses above the window openings in chancel. Chancel piscina with cusped head.
Information from (S1).
P. Watkins (HES), 19 February 2019.
Tower rebuilt and transepts (with unusual cross roof) made 1853. In a niche in the west face of the tower is a stone monster, perhaps a symbol of the evangelists from the original tower pinnacles.
E. Rose (NLA), 5 October 1998.
Associated Sources (4)
- --- SNF7576 Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, B. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 790.
- --- SNF76031 Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2010. Into the 'secret' garden. 3 July.
- --- SNF57722 Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
- <S1> SNF48662 Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1050651.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2019 2:09PM