Bagthorpe: St Mary
Overview
Grid reference: TF 795 322
The church is in the Early English style with simple moulded arches to the doorways and a single lancet window in each bay but one of the nave with trefoiled heads and moulded surrounds.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Four-bay aisleless nave with north-west porch; chancel with north vestry; bell-cote over east nave gable.
Description of Archaeology and History
The church was designed by W.J. Donthorne, who seems to have specialised in workhouses in the Gothic and Tudor styles. He also built the Gothic Cromer Hall in 1827 and Gothic stables at Felbrigg Hall two years earlier. The only other church ascribed to him is an almost complete rebuilding of Stoke Ferry in 1848. Bagthorpe dates from 1853-4.
Exterior Description
The church is in the Early English style with simple moulded arches to the doorways and a single lancet window in each bay but one of the nave with trefoiled heads and moulded surrounds. Each bay is marked by a small buttress with two offsets. The west window has two tall lights with ogee heads with a single pointed quatrefoil as tracery, and higher in the gable is a small lancet lighting the rafters. The corners have diagonal buttresses. In the western bay of the north wall is a small porch, but the corresponding south bay is blind. The slates on the roof are arranged in bands of rectangular and and semi-circular giving a fish- scale effect; a stove-pipe projects through the north slope.
The chancel has a three-light east window with ogee-headed lights and three pointed mouchettes for tracery; the gable has no coping, the slates coming flush with the wall-head. On the north projects a small cross-gabled vestry lit by a single ogee-headed lancet in the north wall. There are no windows to the chancel in the side walls.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
c.1855
The east window contains good glass with panels of Scenes from the Life of Christ with Christ the Saviour attended by angels in the tracery.
Interior
Interior Description
The windows are within plain reveals, and the simple roof structure is enlivened by big trefoils above the arch braces. On the corbels which support these are various shields of arms. In place of the missing window on the south nave wall is a large white marble tablet, the only memorial in the church. The chancel arch has demi-figures as stops to the hood-mould, while the plain inner mouldings continue uninterrupted to the floor. The only stained glass in the church is in the east window, and this, together with the absence of any other windows, makes the chancel quite dark.
Fixtures and fittings
Font (object)
The font is a rectangular piece of Norman work with small attached colonettes at the corner of the bowl and a pattern of interlaced circles on one face of the bowl only. The stepped plinth is later.
Churchyard
Grid reference: TF 795 322
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.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
To learn more about all the species recorded against this church, go to the Burial Ground Portal within the NBN Atlas. You can check the spread of records through the years, discovering what has been recorded and when, plus what discoveries might remain to be uncovered.
Further information
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