Bell 1 of 2
1823
Dove Bell ID: 61097 Tower ID: 24098 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Thurgarton: All Saints
Overview
Grid reference: TG 181 359
The south flank of the church faces the road, and it can be seen at once that the nave is of four bays and quite straightforward with the western bay occupied by the porch and then three more or less equally spaced Decorated windows with flowing tracery. The windows appear throughout to have been very little restored or altered, except for the big chancel east window.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Chancel, nave, south-west porch. At the west stands a rectangular vestry, where formerly stood a circular tower - traces of which are visible against the west wall of the nave.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church now appears largely of the 14th century, though the round tower (which fell in 1882) must have been older. The west vestry dates from c.1924.
Exterior Description
The south flank of the church faces the road, and it can be seen at once that the nave is of four bays and quite straightforward with the western bay occupied by the porch and then three more or less equally spaced Decorated windows with flowing tracery. The windows appear throughout to have been very little restored or altered, except for the big chancel east window. The nave buttresses seem to have been rebuilt in the 19th century, and there is a stone east gable with a cross. The roofs are steep pitched, and the chancel markedly lower than the nave though still quite lofty in relation to its overall dimensions. In the chancel south wall a triangular-headed window of two big lights with Decorated tracery, and a Y traceried window towards the east; between them is a diminutive priest's doorway. The Y- traceried window has crudely carved heads as label stops. At the south-east corner is a buttress with, inexplicably, a passage-way through it. The buttress at the north-east corner simply projects at right-angles to the wall.
The chancel east gable has at some period, probably in the 18th century, been heightened and rebuilt in brick. The east window is of three lights under a three-centred head and has a variant of Y- tracery: it looks also to have been altered in, possibly, the 18th century. There are no openings in the north wall of the chancel, but inside can be seen a wide arched opening which suggests the former existence of a north chancel chapel. On the external wall are the surviving traces of a stringcourse, quite unrelated to anything else, and suggesting that the chancel has been heightened. In the north wall of the nave, where the flints are conspicuously smaller and packed together more densely than in the chancel, is a doorway towards the west, with a 14th century moulded door head, and towards the east a single two-light Decorated window. There seem to be abundant signs of the church having once been rendered all over externally, as one would expect.
Finally there is the porch, two- storied, 14th century in date with two rather crude carved heads (one fragmentary) supporting the imposts of the outer arch.
Interior
Interior Description
The interior is open, bare and altogether pleasing - without being in any way spectacular. The roofs are 19th century (rudimentary hammer- beam in the chancel, tie-beams and queen-posts in the nave and both boarded). The pows are raised on wooden platforms, but much of the floor is paved with red clay tiles. The windows of the nave have nook-shafts and, moreover, the walls appear to have kept their old plaster and just west of the north window are extensive traces of black-letter painted text, 16th or 17th century. In the north-east corner of the nave is a rood stair-case with a Perpendicular entrance opening. West of the nove north window are two shallow niche-like recesses, one of them cinquefoil-headed and the other a plain lancet shape. In the south east corner of the nave is a piscina.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
Jacobean Communion table, with modern top tactfully added.
Rail
18th Century
Communion rails with slim balusters.
Screen
The screen consists of tall single- light openings with very slender uprights.
Font (object)
14th Century
Plain octagonal stone font, the base of the bowl moulded but otherwise no carving
Bells
Bell 2 of 2
Founded by Thomas II Mears 1836
Dove Bell ID: 61098 Tower ID: 24098 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TG 181 359
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | N/A |
| Solar Thermal Panels | N/A |
| Biomass | N/A |
| Wind Turbine | N/A |
| Air Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | N/A |
| Ev Charging | N/A |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
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