Description

TG 2208 NE ST. GREGORY'S ALLEY (east side) 15/789 26.2.54 St. Gregory's Church GV I Former parish church, now redundant. C14 and C15. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Lead roofs. West tower. Nave and chancel. North and south aisles. North, south and west porches. 3-stage unbuttressed tower with cusped Y-tracery west window, 3-light perpendicular 2nd stage window and 2-light belfry windows with decorated tracery. 2-storey north and south porches against tower. South porch:- 2-centre arch to outer door- way with attached shafts. Central statue niche above doorway with crocketed finial. Clockface with pedimented surround beneath apex of shallow gable. 2-bays of quadrapartite vaulting inside with ridge-ribs and bosses. North porch:- similar doorway to south porch with 2 lancet windows above. Traceried panels and statue niche on the east buttress of porch. 4-bay nave with 3- light perpendicular windows to aisles C1425. Eight 2-light decorated clerestory windows. Single bay chancel rebuilt C1394 with brick barrel-vault beneath east end. 4-light perpendicular windows on the north and south sides with 2-centre arches and raised brick cills. Large 5-light perpendicular east window with brick vaulting scars below. The arcade piers have 4 shafts with small shafts between. Crenellated capitals and 2-centre arches. Tall tower arch. Tierceron vault at the first and second stage of the tower with stone gallery also vaulted on underside. Fine roof with alternating tie-beams and arched-braces.

Listing NGR: TG2284508711

External Links

• St Gregory's Church, Norwich at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17537355

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