Record Details
| NHER Number: | 11065 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | All Saints' Church, Alburgh |
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Summary
A medieval church with a painted screen, which was restored in 1988.
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Location
| Grid Reference: | TM 2708 8728 |
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| Map Sheet: | TM28NE |
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| Parish: | ALBURGH, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Medieval church with C14 chancel. Nave, west tower and south porch C15. Constructed from flint rubble with stone dressings and slate roofs. Tall west tower with diagonal buttresses to bottom
stage only, and with slightly recessed bell-stage with 2-light 4-centred arch bell openings, and stepped battlements with flushwork panelling and pinnacles with small flying buttresses.
Flushwork panelling also at base of tower either side of west doorway with
3-light Perpendicular window above.
Perpendicular nave windows. South porch has original roof.
Interior: C15 arch braced nave roof with embattled wall plate. Late C15 screen dado with tracery and remains of colour. Two C15 benches at west end of nave with poppyheads to bench ends.
Information from (S1).
See (S2).
E.Rose (NLA).
Monument Types
- CHURCH (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| --- | Monograph: Bryant, T. H. 1899. Hundred of Earsham. The Churches of Norfolk. Vol III. pp 57-63. |
| --- | 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. p 177. |
| --- | Secondary File: Secondary File. |
| <S1> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. |
| <S2> | Newspaper Article: Eastern Daily Press. 1988. Restoration. 21 June. |
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