Description

TM 2499 SHOTESHAM THE STREET
(south side)

8/105 Church of All Saints
26/11/59

GV II*

Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dress-
ings. Pantiled roofs. West tower with vestry to south, aisleless nave
with north porch and chancel with south aisle. C15 west tower with diagonal
buttresses. Bell-openings with Perpendicular tracery surviving to west
only. Crenellated parapet with gargoyles. 2-light traceried west window.
Main fabric of nave C11 or C12 with former eastern rubble quoins marking
extent. 5 restored 3-light Perpendicular windows with crenellated and
cusped transoms. Victorian sanctus bell surmounted by eagle. Chancel
with modern Y-traceried east window. Plain chamfered chancel and tower
arches. 2-bay chancel with plain chamfered arcades (blocked to north).
Remains of rood stair. C15 octagonal font with lions and angels. Surviving
late medieval wall paintings with one complete figure being burnt (in Hell
presumably). Jacobean communion rail with turned balusters.

Listing NGR: TM2466899016

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17531923

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