Description

TF 26 SE MAREHAM LE FEN CHURCH LANE
(east side)

3/26 Church of
14.9.66 St. Helen

G.V. II*

Parish church. Late C13, early C14, late C14, C15, C16, 1879
partial rebuilding of exterior, 1974 vestry extension. Squared
greenstone rubble, limestone ashlar dressings, slate roofs. West
tower, nave, aisles, south porch, north vestry, chancel. 3 stage
tower with moulded plinth, string courses, set back buttresses,
embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. In the belfry stage are
2 light openings with panelled traceried tops and plain
surrounds. 2 light west window with mouchettes. In the side
walls of the tower to the middle stage are single rectangular
lights. West north aisles window is of 3 lights. C19 tracery in
C15 surround. In the north wall is a late C13 window now with
C19 intersecting tracery. The north doorway is C16, with Tudor
arched head and shields to the spandrels of the moulded square
surround. The door is now covered by a vestry added in 1974
built from materials taken from the demolished Church of St.
Margaret, Old Woodhall. Beyond is a further 3 light intersecting
traceried window and a 4 light C15 window. C19 3 light east
window with cusped tracery, and in the south wall a pair of
similar 2 light windows. C15 south aisle, with crocketed
pinnacles has 2 three light windows with cusped heads to the
lights and segmental heads, with hood moulds and human head
stops. C19 gabled south porch with double chamfered outer arch.
The inner doorway is C14, continuously moulded with fleurons to
the hollow middle order. Further west a 3 light intersecting
traceried window, and the angle pinnacle at the west end has a
carving of St. George and the Dragon in a cusped niche.
Interior. Nave arcades are of 4 bays, C14, with double chamfered
arches, octagonal piers, floriate capitals and responds. Tower
arch blocked by organ loft. In the south aisle a blocked doorway
with shouldered arch. C19 chancel arch with annular responds,
Southwell style leaf capitals and triple chamfered arch. C19
aumbry in north wall, with pointed arched head, contemporary
reveals with crocketed panels and marble shafts. Stained glass
in south aisle of 1919. Fittings are all C19 apart from the
octagonal C14 font with trefoils and human heads to the sides,
moulded fleurons to rim. In the north aisle a sandstone
tombstone with cambered head to James Roberts, d.1826, who sailed
in the Endeavour with Captain Cook and Sir Joseph Banks.

Listing NGR: TF2783361259

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17548654

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Recommended Books

• 
  For the Record
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version