Nominal: 769 Hz Weight: 1176 lbs Diameter: 39.5" Bell 1 of 5
Founded by Thomas Newman 1731
Dove Bell ID: 3104 Tower ID: 11895 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Harpley: St Lawrence
Diocese of Norwich
Church, 626509
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Overview
Grid reference: TF 788 260
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Church open regularly Grade I listed building Visitor parking nearby Rood Screen Stained Glass Angel Roof Concerts/Live Music
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 650 m²
Exterior Description
C13 evident in interior and to south aisle, C14 tower and chancel, C15 rebuilt nave and north aisle, south porch. Rubble flint with knapped and squared flint and freestone dressings, leaded nave and aisles, glazed chancel roofs. South-west tower, south porch, 5 bay nave and aisles, 3 bay chancel with north vestry. 4 stage south-west tower has stone plinth, 4 string course datestone, quoined angle buttresses with set offs. 4 2-light Decorated tracery belfry windows. Battlemented parapet. South-east buttress expanded as canted tower-stacks. Nave west gable has fine large 5-light Perpendicular west window, 5 ogee headed lower lights, central transom, elaborately intersected spandrel tracery. South-west angle buttress 5 bay Perpendicular north aisle has one west and 5 north 3-light tracery windows. Perpendicular north door. 5 bay Perpendicular clerestorey 5-light windows. South aisle has complex history, beginning with 3 south side c.1500 2-light 'Y' tracery windows. One 5-light stepped lancet east window under single arch c.1300. C14 2-light window at south-west junction with tower. Elaborate 2 bay Perpendicular south porch addition has 2 centred outer arch, gable with panelling and 3 niches. Stone plinth, angle set off buttresses, stone parapet and gable with angle spirelets. 2 north and south 2-light 2-centred arch Perpendicular windows, on interior with panelling in between, rere arches with shields. Fine richly moulded 2-centred inner arch house C15 oak door with outer band of niched saints, tracery upper spandrel, lower ogee arched wicket door with 2 angels and tracery panels under central transom division. Aisle heightened during incumbency of John Brewe, Rector 1389-1421, clerk and chaplain to Sir Robert Knollys, builder of Sculthorpe Church, Norfolk. Freestone battlmented parapet with panelling, blank tracery, coats of arms mainly of Knollys connections. Kneeling Angel at west, priest in rocket with dry and book at east. Fine 3 bay chancel and north vestry addition by John de Gurney, Rector 12 94-1332, also patron of Iwing. South side has one 2-light window with ogee head one 2-light with barbed trefoil head both under 2-centred arches, one 3-light Recticulated tracery window under ogee arch head. Fine ogee arch subcusped priest's door. 3 south buttresses with set offs, stone plinth, stong string course. East gable with set off buttresses has 3-light Decorated east window, probably a replacement of 1878, with roundel with 6 trefoils in head. Elaborately crotchetted parapet gable to steeply pitched roof. C14 north vestry.
As listed on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
Perpendicular 5 bay north and south arcades, octagonal columns on octagonal bases and capitals, double hollow chamfered arches. Fine C15 nave roof with arched braced principals on wall posts, elaborate wall plate and ridge collars with angels. C15 north aisle roof with moulded principals and wall posts on coved heads. South aisle roof has C15 principals only surviving. C15 pierced back poppyhead benches throughout. High Victorian font, and fine High Victorian 4 Evangelist pulpit, reading desk. South aisle has 3 continuously moulded arches to tower door. Fine c.1300 Early English sedilia and piscina with collonnettes, cusped arches, pierced spandrels. C14 in situ stained glass in east window. Chancel has C13 piers with stiff leaf capitals, 2-centred Decorated arch above. Door into chancel roof space. Large semi-octagonal internal rood stairs on north aisle side of chancel arch. Fine C14 rood screen panels repantiled 1865, rich tracery upper lights, central ogee arch. Chancel stucco High Victorian, perhaps 1878. 1878 roof. Matrix of bars to John de Gurney, legible inscription. Fine north side heavily recut cusped ogee arch door with open work spandrels, C15 battlemented crested top. C15 4-centred arch Easter Sepulchre. South side has mutilated Decorated sedilia with single battlemented capital and elaborately cusped arch extant. Decorated piscina with triangular headed arches, floriated spandrels, some diapering. See Mrs S.H. Jones "Notes on Harpley Church" in Norfolk Archaeology, VIII, 1879, pp. 17-38.
As listed on Historic England website
Fixtures and fittings
Bell Frame
15th C
Maker
Pickford
5.A Or C
Date
15th C
Visit
DLC 3/65
Description
Hollow Square
OFJ
Jurisdiction
Number of Bells
Material
Bells
Nominal: 1151 Hz Weight: 476 lbs Diameter: 28.5" Bell 2 of 5
Founded by Thomas Newman 1730
Dove Bell ID: 23667 Tower ID: 11895 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1058.5 Hz Weight: 532 lbs Diameter: 29.5" Bell 3 of 5
Founded by Brasyers of Norwich (generic)
Dove Bell ID: 23668 Tower ID: 11895 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 962.5 Hz Weight: 644 lbs Diameter: 31.5" Bell 4 of 5
Founded by John Warner & Sons 1902
Dove Bell ID: 23669 Tower ID: 11895 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 874 Hz Weight: 840 lbs Diameter: 35" Bell 5 of 5
Founded by Thomas & Elias Brend 1659
Dove Bell ID: 23670 Tower ID: 11895 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TF 788 260
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.
Churchyard Structures
War Memorial
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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