Record Details
| NHER Number: | 8649 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | St Michael's Church, Ormesby St Michael |
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Summary
This parish church consists of a crenellated west tower with gargoyles, a thatched nave, lead roofed chancel, thatched south porch and a 20th century north shed which covers a blocked north door. The tower and chancel are 13th century, the nave 14th century. The tower and nave were heightened in the 15th century. The chancel was restored in 1787, and a further restoration carried out from 1885. More restoration in the 1970s included the addition of the south porch and rethatching the nave. Inside is a 13th century octagonal font with eight Purbeck marble columns. There is also a fine collection of memorials and plaques.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 4807 1488 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG41SE |
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| Parish: | ORMESBY ST MICHAEL, GREAT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Church possibly of Saxon or Norman origins, but now mostly of about 1300 with heightening and windows of 15th century origin.
Altered 18th and 19th century.
Very fine collection of post medieval memorial tablets.
See report (S1) in file. Press cutting (S2), photographs (S3) and architect's plans (S4) in file. (S5).
E. Rose (NLA), 9 October 1992.
September 2009.
The Madonna and Child stained glass window designed in the nineteenth-century by Henry Holiday has been selected to appear on a Christmas postage stamp.
See (S6) for further details
H. White, (NLA), 23 September 2009
2012. Watching Brief.
Details awaited.
P. Watkins (HES), 21 February 2017.
Monument Types
- CHURCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- CHURCH (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
- CHURCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds
- DOOR (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- FONT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PISCINA (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- PISCINA (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WINDOW (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WINDOW (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WINDOW (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
- WINDOW (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Aerial Photograph: TG4814E. |
| --- | Documentary Source: Martin, T. c. 1700-1799. Collections of Church Notes. Norfolk Records Office. c. 1740. |
| --- | Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card. |
| --- | Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 630. |
| --- | Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1899. Hundreds of East and West Flegg. The Churches of Norfolk. Vol IV. pp 50-55. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Unpublished Document: Rose, E. (NLA). 1992. Building Report.. Building Report. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1975. New top for St. Michael's. 24 September. |
| <S3> | Photograph: FWD 33-7. |
| <S4> | Illustration: Various. Various. Architectural plans. |
| <S5> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1287570. |
| <S6> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 2009. [Articles on the stained glass window of the Madonna and Child design used for a Christmas postage stamp]. |
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