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Church of St Andrew

A Grade I Listed Building in Little Cressingham, Norfolk

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.5659 / 52°33'57"N

Longitude: 0.7605 / 0°45'37"E

OS Eastings: 587194

OS Northings: 300035

OS Grid: TF871000

Mapcode National: GBR RBJ.13Y

Mapcode Global: WHKR9.NRBR

Plus Code: 9F42HQ86+96

Entry Name: Church of St Andrew

Listing Date: 23 June 1960

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1077227

English Heritage Legacy ID: 221030

ID on this website: 101077227

Location: St Andrew's Church, Little Cressingham, Breckland, Norfolk, IP25

County: Norfolk

District: Breckland

Civil Parish: Little Cressingham

Traditional County: Norfolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk

Church of England Parish: Little Cressingham St Andrew

Church of England Diocese: Norwich

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Description


LITTLE CRESSINGHAM FAIRSTEAD LANE
TF 80 SE (north side)

10/33
Church of St.Andrew
23:6:60

- I

Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick
dressings. Corrugated concrete tile and plaintile roofs. Former tower porch
to south of nave (one and a half sides have collapsed). Aisled nave. 2
westernmost bays of nave and westernmost south aisle bay roofless. 2 north
aisle bays demolished except for west wall. Chancel. C15 fragmentary tower
with 2 surviving angle buttresses and a fragment of wave and double ogee
moulded eastern entrance jamb. No bell openings. Stoop beside moulded south
doorway. West wall with chequered flushwork plinth, the stone simulated with
mortar. Large west window reduced to a late-Medieval flat headed 2-light
window. Aisle wall with a 3-light window simulated in flushwork. South aisle
with 3 3-light south windows with mouchettes beneath 4-centred arches and a
similar east window. C19 north aisle with tracery imitating the south aisle.
5 2-light cusped Y-traceried clearstorey windows. Chancel with one C14 2-light
window with cusped soufflet to north. 2 blocked windows to south with tracery
stumps remaining. Moulded priest's doorway. 3-light east window with tracery
based on remaining stumps, crudely re-instated. Present entrance to west in
brick wall dividing the roofed church from the ruin. Fine Perpendicular
arcades, each pier consisting of opposing half-shafts against a narrow wave-
moulded core which rises uninterrupted to form outer order of arch. Wave-
moulded inner order supported on half-shafts. Plain chamfered chancel arch.
Chancel has an arched trilobe piscina with carved terminals.


Listing NGR: TF8719400035

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