Record Details
| NHER Number: | 2230 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | St John's church, Terrington St John |
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Summary
The church of St John has a number of interesting features. The first is that the current tower, with its Early English style lower lancet windows, appears to be earlier than the church from which it may originally have stood separate. The church is in the Decorated style, with later Perpendicular style windows including the west font, north and south aisles. The church was restored in 1843, when it finally became a parish church in its own right, and no longer a chapel of ease to St Clement.
Also of intrigue is the building that now links the tower to the church. The ground floor is a stone-faced brick chamber with a brick barrel vault, and above this a small room above this which may have been the priest's room. From this room a stair rises to the nave roof and the roof of the priest's roof, on which there are two passages, one on top of each other. One leads to the ringing chamber, the other to a winder stair up the tower.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TF 5394 1585 |
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| Map Sheet: | TF51NW |
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| Parish: | TERRINGTON ST JOHN, WEST NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Early English tower with four storey link to church. Church Decorated style with Perpendicular style windows and alterations.
1977. Tiled pavement excavated.
3 sherds of medieval pottery included Grimstone and fragments of medieval buckle (S3) were found during the lifting of the tiles.
See file for further details.
E. Rose (NLA), October 1990. Modified by H. Mellor (HES), 25 June 2014.
Monument Types
- CHAPEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1066 AD? to 1843 AD)
- CHURCH (Medieval to 21st Century - 1066 AD? to 2100 AD)
- CROSS (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
- FLOOR (Medieval - 1066 AD? to 1539 AD?)
Associated Finds
- BUCKLE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- COFFIN (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FLOOR TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- POT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- STAINED GLASS (WINDOW) (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- TILE (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Protected Status
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
- Listed Building
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TF5315 A,B,J,K. |
| --- | Article in Serial: Cozens-Hardy B. 1934. Norfolk Crosses. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXV Pt II pp 297-336. p 226. |
| --- | Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1902. Hundred of Freebridge Marshland. The Churches of Norfolk. Vol X. pp 49-54. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N and Wilson, W. 1999. Norfolk 2: North-West and South. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. pp 696-697. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| --- | Unpublished Document: Birdsall and Swash. 1990. The Parish Church of St. John the Baptist at Terrington St. John. A Specification. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: [Article on a wooden figurine from St John's Church, Terrington St John]. |
| --- | Newspaper Article: Lynn News. 1996. £20000 problem for church. 30 August. |
| --- | Collection: Norfolk Historic Environment Record Staff. 1975-[2000]. HER Record Notes. Norfolk Historic Environment Service. |
| <S1> | Article in Serial: 1933. The Proceedings of the Society during the year 1932. Norfolk Archaeology. Vol XXV Pt I pp v-xliii. pp xxxii-xxxv. |
| <S2> | Serial: 1819. Excursions Through Norfolk. |
| <S3> | Illustration: [Unknown]. 1979. Drawing of a medieval copper alloy double buckle fragment. Card. 2:1. |
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