Description

TF 93 NE HINDRINGHAM THE STREET
3/111 (west side)

6.3.59 Church of St Martin

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Parish church. C14 with some later Perpendicular details. Flint with stone dressings
and slated roofs. West tower, nave with north and south aisles and clerestory, south
porch, chancel with north chapel. West tower with 3-light Decorated west window, four
2-light bell chamber openings, stairs tower at south. Five 2-light clerestory
windows. Four 3-light south aisle. Decorated windows, with 3-light east and west
windows. Decorated south porch with single light window in gable. Chancel with
2 straight-headed Decorated windows of 2-lights, 5-light Decorated windows of
2-lights, 5-light Decorated east window with reticulated tracery. North aisle with
blocked C15 north door, 3-light Decorated windows and the 2 bay north chancel chapel a
continuation of the aisle with 2 Decorated 3-light windows and 3-light east window.
Interior: 5 bay north and south arcades, octagonal piers with double hollow chamfered
arches. Perpendicular tower arch. North chancel chapel with to north aisle an arch
dying into wall, to chancel a 2 bay arcade. Perpendicular chancel arch with rood
stairs arch to north, rectangular squint to south. Sedelia mostly C19 recut, half
filled in piscina. C15 but much renewed arched braced nave roof with coved wall
plate. High Victorian heavily wind braced chancel roof. C15 glass fragments in south
aisle east window, chancel east window by Hughes c1860. C15 font octagonal with
4 evangelist beasts and 4 shields: a defaced crucifixion, Passion instruments, the
Trinity symbol, the Royal Arms.

Listing NGR: TF9842236410

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536780

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)