Nominal: 841 Hz Weight: 1008 lbs Diameter: 36.38" Bell 1 of 5
Founded by Thomas Newman 1736
Dove Bell ID: 7455 Tower ID: 12366 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Wilby: All Saints
Diocese of Norwich
Church, 626461
http://www.quidenhamgroup.co.ukOverview
Grid reference: TM 31 899
Mostly Decorated, with some Perpendicular details, and a more or less complete refurnishing surviving from 1633.
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Church open regularly Grade I listed building Visitor parking nearby Wall Painting
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
West tower, aisle-less nave and chancel, south-west porch.
Footprint of Church buildings: 307 m²
Description of Archaeology and History
Mostly Decorated, with some Perpendicular details, and a more or less complete refurnishing surviving from 1633.
Exterior Description
Mid C14 and C15. Flint with ashlar quoins and plain tiled roofs. West tower, nave and chancel. 3 stage tower, diagonal buttresses to west, flat to east but all with flushwork. 3-light west window with mouchette tracery and lower portion blocked in 1630's. String courses divide stages. Circular ringing chamber lights with quatrefoils and 2-light louvred belfry windows with single reticulation unit. Crenellated parapet. C15 gabled south porch, the arch roll and wave moulded with fleurons below brick relieving arch and statutory niche. Coped parapet. 2-light side windows under square brick hoods. Porch roof on arched braces, moulded purlins and ridge piece. Inner south door of 2 orders of sunk quadrants and hood on head stops. 2 flat buttresses to nave, one C14 2-light ogeed window with reticulation within larger unit. 3-light 4-centred C15 panel window next east. Raised coping of brick divides nave and chancel. Chancel has flat and diagonal eastern buttresses. 3 2-light cusped Y windows to south, 2 to north. Priest's door south with hood interrupting string course which runs round chancel further punctuated by buttresses. Fine 3-L east window of intersecting type repeating 2 designs of cusped mouchettes and petals. Hollow moulded jambs and hood mould on labels. Blocked circular roof light with quatrefoil in heightened parapet. 2 3-light C15 panel windows to north nave and C14 ogeed north door with 2 orders of wave mouldings. C20 brick buttress at west.
As listed on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
Remarkable for complete survival of furnishings of 1630's following fire of 1633. Gallery screen under tower with 2 doors, dated 1637, and 2 tiers turned balusters. Gallery ceiling of timber with heavily moulded joists framing square central bay containing circular quartered hatch with central boss. Closed string ladder staircase with square newel and domed finial, moulded central baluster, plain, handrail and moulded string, 10 sets of bench pews with fleur-de-lys bench ends and some incised decoration. 4 box pews to east retaining H or H hinges. Panelled triple decker pulpit under tester, the pulpit with scrolled brackets supporting combined cornice and reading desk. Base of screen. Communion rail with turned balusters under moulded top rail with ball finials. Central gate with 2 tiers of similar balusters. Nave roof also 1630's : tie beams with roll mouldings and tongue stops below wall plate; moulded principals not aligned to ties on wall posts and braces; 3 tiers moulded butt purlins and roll moulded arched collars. Square poor box on column dated 1638. Late C14 octagonal font, the bowl decorated with tracery motifs in gables. Chancel arch with continuous lobes to responds and wave moulded arch. Chancel roof of principals on wall posts with arched braces, 2 tiers butt purlins and collars. Cinquefoil piscina. Timber Royal Arms of Charles I over south door. Remains of wall painting of St. Christopher on north nave wall.
As listed on Historic England website
Fixtures and fittings
Clock
18th Century Clock with wrought iron side by side birdcage frame located in Tower
Historical Notes
1775 - 1775
Period Qualifier: 2
Font (object)
Decorated octagonal bowl, with characteristic Decorated tracery patterns in miniature on the principal faces; round the rim of the bowl is crenellation. The font is splendidly situated on a stone plinth in the centre of the nave, opposite the south entrance.
Chest
Close to the south door a large plain oak chest, probably 18th or early 19th century.
Pulpit
The lowest stage has a plain reading desk; then the middle stage has two elongated S-brackets (one largely missing). The pulpit itself is hexagonal. All six sides are present, one of them forming a gate into the pulpit, and these are panelled. Two sides form the desk, the projecting ledge being supported by bold scrolly brackets. The tester has acorn-shaped drops, and the back panel supporting the tester has typical late 16th/early 17th century arcaded decoration and looks as though it may have been re-used in making the pulpit.
Screen
Low chancel screen with gates. The gates have two tiers of balusters.
Rail
Communion rails, central gate, also with two tiers of balusters, and with two bays either side distinguished from one another by thicker balusters and rounded finials of a form characteristic of the 1630's (cf the stalls in Oriel College Chapel, Oxford, which Pevsner however dates c. 1650). The slender balusters in between, with their ringed ornament, are the same pattern as those in the gallery.
Altar
Sturdy table, heightened by being stood on blocks and lengthened by the super-imposition of a modern top.
Organ (object)
Two manuals and pedal.
Bells
Nominal: 1255 Hz Diameter: 25.56" Bell 2 of 5
Founded by Thomas Newman 1736
Dove Bell ID: 46036 Tower ID: 12366 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1124 Hz Diameter: 27.75" Bell 3 of 5
Founded by Thomas Newman 1736
Dove Bell ID: 46037 Tower ID: 12366 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 1055 Hz Diameter: 29.31" Bell 4 of 5
Founded by John Draper 1634
Dove Bell ID: 46038 Tower ID: 12366 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Nominal: 942 Hz Diameter: 32.88" Bell 5 of 5
Founded by John Draper 1634
Dove Bell ID: 46039 Tower ID: 12366 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TM 31 899
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.
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 | 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.
Further information
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