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Latitude: 52.6316 / 52°37'53"N
Longitude: 1.2878 / 1°17'15"E
OS Eastings: 622588
OS Northings: 308832
OS Grid: TG225088
Mapcode National: GBR W83.0X
Mapcode Global: WHMTM.R3FX
Plus Code: 9F43J7JQ+J4
Entry Name: Norwich Arts Centre
Listing Date: 26 February 1954
Last Amended: 8 April 1986
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1220682
English Heritage Legacy ID: 229497
Also known as: St Swithin's Church
ID on this website: 101220682
Location: Coslany, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2
County: Norfolk
District: Norwich
Electoral Ward/Division: Mancroft
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Norwich
Traditional County: Norfolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Norfolk
Church of England Parish: Norwich St Giles
Church of England Diocese: Norwich
Tagged with: Former church
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TG 2208 NE
15/725
ST. BENEDICT'S STREET (north side)
No 51, Norwich Arts Centre
(Formerly listed as Premises Arts Centre, ST. BENEDICT'S STREET, previously listed as Former Church of St. Swithin)
26.2.54
GV
I
Former parish church, now redundant and used as Arts Centre. C14 and C15. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Lead roof. West tower pulled down in 1881. Nave and chancel in one. North and south aisles. Rood turret against north aisle. Large Edwardian vestry and hall to the east and north of the church. Small bell-turret on the west gable and four-light window. Four bays to nave and chancel with two-light decorated windows. Two-light clerestory windows with flat arches and decorated tracery. Five-light east window with a four-centre arch and decorated tracery.
Interior: hollow chamfered octagonal brick piers to north aisle. South aisle piers remade in classical cruciform section with semi-circular arches. Fine queen-post roof with arch braces springing from wall-posts supported on angel-corbels. Carved bosses at purlin and ridge levels.
Listing NGR: TG2258808832
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