Description

TF 81 SE FRANSHAM STATION ROAD
Great Fransham.

9/31 Church of All Saints
30.5.60
- II*

Parish Church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar dressings, rendered
chancel and slate roofs. West tower, nave With north porch and former south
aisle and chancel. Late C13 and early C14 west tower with Y-traceried bell
openings, diagonal buttresses and quatrefoil sound holes. Restored 2-light
cusped Y-traceried west window. Short leaded spire. Modern south wall with
4 2-light traceried windows. 2 3-light C19 windows to north in Perpendicular
style. Curious Victorian 3-light east window with lozenge reticulation.
No other openings in chancel. C14 moulded north doorway with dying mouldings.
Fragments of chequer flushwork on porch. 4-bay C14 south arcade with columns,
bell capitals, tall octagonal bases and 4-centred arches of 2 orders hollow-
chamfered and wave moulded. Tower arch with wave-moulded inner order on
carved corbels. Chancel arch rebuilt on original C14 semicircular responds
with 3 fillets per shaft and tall polygonal bases. C15 octagonal font with
shields, bust bowl corbels and blind arcaded stem.

Listing NGR: TF8989013104

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17553482

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair