Description

TG 2209 SE,TG 2208 NE OAK STREET
(east side)
10/587 15/587
26.2.54. Church of St. Michael
Coslany.
GV I
Parish church now disused. Late C14, C15 and early C16. Flint with stone
dressings. Ashlar faced north aisle and chapel. Brick. Slate roof.
West tower, nave and chancel. North and south aisles. South chancel
aisle and north chapel. 4 stage tower C.1425 with diagonal buttresses.
West doorway with 2-centre arch having carved spandrels and shield frieze.
Good 2-leaf door each with 3 panels of cusped tracery with birds and dragons
in mouchettes surmounted by 2 figures. Outer border of crenellated divisions.
4-light Perpendicular window above door with flanking status niches having
valuted canopies and finials. 3-light windows in top stages. Crenellated
stone parapet with shield frieze and corner pinnacles. 4 bay nave:- 3-light
Decorated quatrefoil west window with simple C15 south door to right. 2 bay
south aisle and one bay south chancel aisle. Brick west wall to south aisle.
3 4-light Perpendicular aisle windows with 4-centre arches and brattishing
on transomes in outer lights. Similar tracery pattern throughout. Flush-
work on the south aisle with window and quatrefoil motifs, that on the
chancel along with the east window of 1883. The north door has 3 orders
of mouldings with central attached shaft and a 4-centre arch with drip-
mould. Lancet window in chancel arch gable. 4-shaft piers with double
order mouldings in diagonals and 4-centre arches to arcades. Springing
of arch only in the west bay of the south arcade coinciding with the brick
west wall. Blind store arcading in aisles with attached shafts. Tower
arch. Chancel arch without piers. Scissor-brace roof to nave. Flat
aisle roofs with arch-braces springing from wall posts. Arch-braced roof
to chancel. The braces forming pointed arch profile and springing from
wall-posts with shield corbels. Thorp chapel with stone open tracery
screen and tomb.

Listing NGR: TG2282808996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St Michael Coslany, Norwich at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q17537388

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)