Tottington: St Andrew
Diocese of Norwich
Closed Church, 626677
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Overview
Grid reference: TL 893 955
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 429 m²
Exterior Description
c.1360, restored 1885-6 by E.P. Willins. Rendered flint with ashlar quoins and tiled and pantiled roofs. West tower, nave, aisles and chancel. Tower of 4 stages. Angle buttresses to west becoming diagonal and diagonal to east. Arched and moulded west door below 2-light window. Cusped lancets to ringing chamber and 2-light belfry windows, louvred. Battlemented parapet with string course. Small kneelers to coped aisle walls. South porch with rebuilt round arch in brick below small niche. Blocked 3-light Perpen- dicular windows east and west under flat hoods. Roof with tie bars and braces to ridge piece. Undercut moulded door. Chancel with priest's door, one flat buttress north and south and diagonal at east. Clerestorey walls rebuilt in 1886 with new 3-light cusped windows. All aisle and chancel windows covered with corrugated iron sheets but tracery survives of transitional Decorated and Perpendicular styles as follows (from south aisle west to north aisle west via east end) : 3-light panel with spiked lozenges; 2-light ogeed with reticulation units within larger units vertically; 2-light reticulation net; 2-light round headed cusped lights and diagonal petal; 3-light piled mouchettes; 2-light panel; 2-light panel; east window C19 stem and leaf; 3- light intersecting; 3-light pierced panel; 2-light ogeed with rounded trefoils in vesica; 2-light panel above battlemented transom; 2-light ogeed with 3 mouchettes (14 windows).
As listed on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
Interior has 4-bay arcade. Quatrefoil piers with continuous hollows and filleted lobes north and south on low polygonal bases. Polygonal capitals support chamfer and sunk quadrant arches with hood on head stops. Clerestorey window splays fall below apex of arcade. Tall chancel arch similar. Nave and south aisle roofs 1886. Nave scissor braced with collars on battlemented wall plates. North aisle roof mainly C14. Moulded rafters and purlins. Alternate principals on arched braces carrying pierced traceried spandrels. Chancel roof lowered and plastered. Cinquefoiled sedilia and piscina. Reredos 1896. Plain octagonal font. No other furnishings.
As listed on Historic England website
Churchyard
Grid reference: TL 893 955
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.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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.
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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