St_Andrew's_Church,_St_Andrews_Street,_Norwich_Porch.jpg
Description St Andrew's Church, St Andrews Street, Norwich Porch.jpg |
While I was taking photos down St Andrews Street, we were trying to find our way to look at Norwich Cathedral. Last time I didn't take any Norwich churches, this time I took a lot of them! This is the Church of St Andrew on St Andrews Street, Norwich. It is Grade I listed building. <a href=" http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-229472-st-andrew-s-church-norwich " rel="nofollow">St. Andrew's Church - Norwich - British Listed Buildings</a> Parish Church. Tower 1467 to 1498. South porch C1469. North Porch C.1474 Church 1499 to 1518. Flint with stone and brick dressings. Ashlar facing on nave and chancel. Lead roof. West tower. Nave and chancel in one. North and south aisles and porches. Rood turret against south aisle. 4-stage tower with panelled diagonal buttresses and stair turret on south side. West door with badly weathered shield frieze above. 4-light west window with 2-centre arch. large 3-light belfry windows with intersecting tracery. 2-storey porches built against the tower and in line with the aisles. 5 bays to nave and chancel with an un-aisled half-bay at the east end. Large 4-light perpendicular windows with 2-centre arches. Eleven clerestory windows with triangular pilasters between. The east end has cusped flushwork below plinth with stone shield frieze above. Three statue niches and 2 armorial shields below large 5-light perpendicular east window with 4-centre arch. Small diagonal corner buttresses with run-out concave hollows. Post-mediaevel re-build of vestry above plinth at the end of the south aisle. The aisle piers have 4 shafts with a concave moulding on the diagonal face. Blind cusped tracery below clerestory windows. Low-pitched roof with heavy ridge-piece and single butt-purlins. Arch-bracing forming a 4-centre profile and springing from wall-shafts supported on angel corbels. The Suckling Chapel in the north aisle is enclosed by an open traceried screen. Good monuments to Robert Suckling (1589). Francis Rugge (1607). Robert Garsett (1613) and Sir John Sucking (1613). Many 018 monuments. Victorian font and pulpit.
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Source | Flickr : St Andrew's Church, St Andrews Street, Norwich - Porch | ||
Author | Elliott Brown | ||
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