Record Details
| NHER Number: | 65667 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Church at St Andrew's Hospital |
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Summary
This church was constructed in the mid 19th century, following the completion of the main hospital buildings to the north (NHER 9693). It is built of yellow brick in a Classical Revival style, with ashlar and brick dressings and a hipped slate roof with hipped octagonal ventilator. It has an octagonal body with porch and vestry to east, organ chamber and three-stage tower to north and rectangular nave and vestry to west. In the basement are former mortuary rooms and a half-tiled post-mortem room.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 2793 0856 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NE |
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| Parish: | THORPE ST ANDREW, BROADLAND, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Road bridge at St Andrew's Hospital (NHER 9693).
Previously recorded under NHER 9693.
November 1997. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Church. 1856-1859, by John Brown, county surveyor. Nave 1877, probably by THB Heslop, county surveyor. Yellow brick, with ashlar and brick dressings and hipped slate roof with a hipped octagonal ventilator. Classical Revival style. Rusticated basement and angle pilasters, string course and sill band. Octagonal body with porch and vestry to east, and organ chamber and tower to north. Rectangular nave with western vestry...To north, organ chamber with a tall round arched window to east and west. Above, square tower, three stages, the lowest stage rusticated...Nave has three bays divided by pilasters, sill band, and bracketed eaves cornice. On each side, three three-light windows. West end has pediment containing a round window, and topped with a finial and cross. Vestry at west end, single storey, has flat roof behind coped parapet. Projecting centre with large glazing bar window, flanked by single smaller windows, all with flat heads.
Interior, rendered. Main body has hipped matchboard ceiling with central octagonal boss. East side has a triple gabled wooden rereedos, 20th century, flanked by doors…Nave has ramped floor, ornamented cross-beam ceiling, and frieze with roundels. Bays are divided by panelled pilasters with cornices. West end has a central six-panel door.
Fittings: original benches with panelled ends in the main body, replica benches in the nave. Original altar rail. At the east end, two radiators, 19th-century, in elaborate cast iron foliage cases.
In the basement, former mortuary rooms, and half-tiled post-mortem room with glazed ceramic dissection table on pedestals."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 23 May 2022.
Monument Types
- CHURCH (19th Century - 1856 AD (between) to 1877 AD (between))
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1031520. |
Related records
| 9693 | Part of: St Andrew's Hospital (Thorpe Asylum) (Building) |