Description

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5207SW SOUTHTOWN ROAD 839-1/15/242 (East side) 27/06/53 Southtown And Gorleston Church of St Mary

GV II

Parish church. 1831. By JJ Scoles, extended in 1893. Gault brick. Slate roofs. Nave and narrow chancel with vestries added north and south of the chancel. EXTERIOR: nave with 5 tall lancets to north and south separated by flat buttresses rising to low parapets. The buttresses have knapped flint panels. West front with a low narthex added 1925 entered through an arched doorway under a shouldered pediment and flanked by a small lancet right and left. Similar shouldered pediment framed between pair of tall square pinnacles to main wall containing 3 stepped lancets. Arched side doors. Wide gabled roof. Chancel with twin lancets north and south and a blind east end. INTERIOR: no arcades. Suspended ceiling. Gallery round 3 walls removed 1914. Triple pointed sedilia and piscina in chancel. Altar, reredos and panelling, pulpit and Litany desk relocated from Church of St Peter (qv) 1964.

Listing NGR: TG5214607165

External Links

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