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Church of St Mary the Virgin

A Grade I Listed Building in Burgh and Tuttington, Norfolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.7775 / 52°46'38"N

Longitude: 1.2867 / 1°17'12"E

OS Eastings: 621775

OS Northings: 325052

OS Grid: TG217250

Mapcode National: GBR VDH.VHZ

Mapcode Global: WHMSV.QGX2

Plus Code: 9F43Q7GP+XM

Entry Name: Church of St Mary the Virgin

Listing Date: 10 May 1961

Last Amended: 18 November 1983

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1050928

English Heritage Legacy ID: 228052

ID on this website: 101050928

Location: St Mary's Church, Burgh next Aylsham, Broadland, Norfolk, NR11

County: Norfolk

District: Broadland

Civil Parish: Burgh and Tuttington

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

Church of England Parish: Burgh-next-Aylsham St Mary

Church of England Diocese: Norwich

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Description


TG 22 NW TUTTINGTON CHURCH LANE, BURGH

Church of St. Mary
3/93
10/5/61 The Virgin.
(Formerly listed as Cburch of
I St. Mary, Burgh)

Parish Church. Flint with limestone dressings; nave, north chapel and porch
roofs plain-tiled; chancel thatched. West tower C15, nave much restored C19,
chancel of early C13, extended in late C19 by R. M. Phipson; chancel north
chapel late C19. Angle-buttressed west tower; flushwork panels in plinth.
Square sound openings on north and south with mouchette-wheel traceried panels.
Large two-light belfry openings with louvres and panel tracery. Embattled
parapet with shields and crowned 'M' motifs. 3-light Perpendicular west window
flanked by niches at cill level. Polygonal stair turret in south tower wall.
Nave south windows and doors C19 restoration. Chancel of c,1200 with two
easternmost bays and east wall rebuilt in 1876-8 by R. M. Phipson : south
wall with eight lancets in bays of 3-3-2. Bays divided by staged and gabled
buttresses. East wall with three lancets with engaged shafts and capitals.
Circular foiled window above lancets. North chapel C19, with two lancets
in gable. Interior: important work of c.1200 in chancel : two tiers of blank
Early English arcading. Each of the 8 upper bays, south side, pierced by
a lancet with deep splayed reveals. Low-side window in lower arcade. Shafts
with fine stiff-leaf capitals. Lower arcade apparently intended to continue
further west, but interrupted by chancel arch. On the north side, a lower
arcade of 7 bays surmounted by 4 bays, the two easternmost with lancets (C19).
Fine C13 opening to north chapel flanked on each side by three shafts with
stiff-leaf capitals and bird-carvings. Centre shaft on each side keeled.
Chancel roof C19; arch-braced collars with collar-runner. Chancel arch re-
worked in C19 with curiously-carved responds and attached shafts. Label-stops
of chancel arch left as blocks. Step down into chancel from nave. Nave
windows of two lights, one at high level on south side. Good octagonal seven-
sacrament font on stepped base; the stem has four shields and four figures,
the underside of the bowl carved with angels holding sacramental emblems.
Tall tower arch of three orders of plain chamfers; chamfered reveal with broach
stops. Good monument on north wall to Edmund Burr (d. 1720) and his wife
(d. 1708).


Listing NGR: TG2177525052

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