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Latitude: 52.7062 / 52°42'22"N
Longitude: 0.7083 / 0°42'29"E
OS Eastings: 583071
OS Northings: 315504
OS Grid: TF830155
Mapcode National: GBR Q7C.CW1
Mapcode Global: WHKQP.V7GN
Plus Code: 9F42PP45+F8
Entry Name: Church of All Saints
Listing Date: 23 June 1960
Last Amended: 23 October 1985
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1077266
English Heritage Legacy ID: 220923
ID on this website: 101077266
Location: All Saints' Church, Newton, Breckland, Norfolk, PE32
County: Norfolk
District: Breckland
Town: Breckland
Civil Parish: Newton by Castle Acre
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Newton-by-Castle Acre All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Church building
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NEWTON BY CASTLEACRE
Church of All Saints
(formerly listed as Church of St Mary)
I
Parish church. C11 and later. Flint with limestone, carstone and ferruginous
conglomerate dressings. Pantile and wood shingle roofs. Aisleless nave;
narrower axial tower; chancel. C14 3-light west window with reticulated
tracery. Blocked doorway beneath. C14 plain chamfered north doorway blocked.
C14 south doorway of 2 plain chamfered orders with a hood mould. Pair of
blocked C11 loops with carstone arched lintels opposed towards the middle
of the nave to north and south. 2 C15 2-light south windows with flat heads
and ogee tracery. C11 tower with evidence for an added south transept now
removed. Blocked archway with lancet to ground floor. Sloping dripstone
to former transept roof. Reduced double splayed window at first floor.
Heavily restored twin bell-openings with triangular heads and mid wall piers
of flint and mortar to west and north, and carstone shafts to south and east.
Throughstone slab to west. South and east openings have cubic capitals with
chamfered-off angles, pronounced astragals and simple conical bases.
Pyramidal shingle roof. Chancel with C14 2-light east window with soufflet
and a C14 cusped lancet to north. Piece of limestone re-used in north wall
- possibly a former arched window jamb with drilled holes for a wooden
lattice. Interior. Eastern tower arch original with a roughly semicircular
headed arch on chamfered imposts and sloping jambs. C14 double-ogee moulded
western tower arch with an original triangular headed doorway above.
Surviving rood stair in north west angle of tower. Chancel with a simple
broken piscina on east wall and a C14 aumbry to north.
Listing NGR: TF8307115504
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