Nominal: 764 Hz Weight: 1193 lbs Diameter: 39.5" Bell 1 of 6
Founded by Thomas Potter
Dove Bell ID: 7321 Tower ID: 13229 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Weston Longville: All Saints
Diocese of Norwich
Church, 626194
https://www.reepham-and-wensum-valley-team-churches.org.uk/Overview
Grid reference: TG 113 158
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Church open regularly Grade I listed building Visitor parking nearby On a footpath, trail or cycle route Wheelchair accessible Local shop(s) or amenities nearby Rood Screen Stained Glass Wall Painting Bell Ringing
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 533 m²
Exterior Description
Fabric principally of C14 with C13 west tower. Flint with some brick and conglomerate; limestone dressings. Nave and chancel plain tiled, aisle roofs leaded, C20 black-glazed pantiles on porch. Squat, square unbuttressed west tower with semi-circular headed ball openings with "Y" tracery. C15 south porch with angle buttresses to gable wall. Remains of flushwork panels in spandrels above entrance arch, frieze of panels with shields above surmounted by ogee-headed niche and arms of the French Merchant Adventurers. C18 memorial tablet to the Duning family (+ 1738) reset in gable wall. South aisle unbuttressed with three 3-light Perpendicular windows. Carved head-corbel to east parapet. Decorated chancel with flowing tracery, much renewed in a restoration of 1880; priest's door in south wall. East window of north aisle has three cusped lancets under a four-centred arch. Perpendicular north windows of three lights under a square label, probably of 1880. North doorway with continuous hollow chamfer. Five bay clerestorey of quatrefoils. South door and ironwork medieval. North and south arcades C14, of six bays with octagonal piers and arches with double chamfers. One chamfer hollow on south side, suggesting a slightly earlier date.
As listed on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
C15 Perpendicular painted screen with twelve painted panels in dado depicting the Apostles; panel tracery above ogee headed arches. Good painted figures on north and south sides of chancel arch and on the north aisle wall a fine C14 wall painting of the Tree of Jesse. Rood stair on south side of chancel arch. Fine C14 piscina and triple sedilia on south chancel wall. Pre- Reformation altar slab moved from nave to sanctuary in 1880; reredos with mosaic inlay of the same period. Roofs C19 : crown posts on tie beams in nave; arch-braced principal rafters with boarded and facetted ceiling in chancel. Monuments: to the Thorne family (1811 and later) on north aisle wall; to Henry Rookwood (+ 1718) on east wall of south aisle; to Rev. James Woodforde (+ 1803) on north wall of chancel. (Woodforde, the well known C18 diarist, was rector of Weston Longville from 1775.) Font with plain octagonal bowl on large central column and four shafts of Purbeck marble. Part of font base incorporates an early carving of a crucifix, said to be Saxon. Brass, 1533,to Elizabeth Rokewood. Churchyard wall of flint with brick capping and half-round copings; included for group value and for re-use of fragments of medieval window tracery at south east corner.
As listed on Historic England website
Fixtures and fittings
Bell Frame
18th C
Maker
Pickford
5 Complex
Date
18th C
Visit
DLC 5/75
Description
OFJ
Jurisdiction
Number of Bells
4
Material
Bells
Nominal: 1284 Hz Weight: 410 lbs Diameter: 26.63" Bell 2 of 6
Founded by Whitechapel Bell Foundry 1975
Dove Bell ID: 45363 Tower ID: 13229 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1144 Hz Weight: 451 lbs Diameter: 27.88" Bell 3 of 6
Founded by Whitechapel Bell Foundry 1975
Dove Bell ID: 45364 Tower ID: 13229 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1020 Hz Weight: 504 lbs Diameter: 29.63" Bell 4 of 6
Founded by William & Alice Brend
Dove Bell ID: 45365 Tower ID: 13229 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Nominal: 964 Hz Weight: 701 lbs Diameter: 32.5" Bell 5 of 6
Founded by Richard I Brasyer
Dove Bell ID: 45366 Tower ID: 13229 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Nominal: 858 Hz Weight: 825 lbs Diameter: 35.63" Bell 6 of 6
Founded by Thomas II Mears 1819
Dove Bell ID: 45367 Tower ID: 13229 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: eighth Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TG 113 158
Burial and War Grave Information
The church/building is consecrated.
The churchyard has been used for burial.
The churchyard is used for burial.
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.
Churchyard Structures
War Memorial
Two in Churchyard
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 | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
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.
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