Church of St Mary Denton, England

Listed Building Data

Church of St Mary has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1373626
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
7 December 1959
Name
CHURCH OF ST MARY
Location
CHURCH OF ST MARY, EARSHAM ROAD
Parish
Denton
District
South Norfolk
County
Norfolk
Grid Reference
TM 28625 87345
Easting
628625.0000
Northing
287345.0000

Listed Building Description

Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.

  1. 5321 DENTON EARSHAM ROAD Church of St Mary TM 28 NE 16/1B 7.12.59

I

  1. Flint built with stone dressings and slate roofs. Late C13 chancel with 5-light east window with intersecting tracery. North and south chancel windows with Y-tracery. Perpendicular north and south aisles with Decorated east and west windows. Two clerestory windows on each side with quatrefoil square openings. Partly rebuilt west tower, originally circular, faced in brick in C18 in Gothic style and with late Cl9 flint top stage. C15 2-storeyed north porch with diagonal buttresses and niche between first floor windows, and with Tierceron-star-vault with carved bosses depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, the Nativity, the Resurection and the Ascension. Interior: three-bay north and south arcades with octagonal piers and double chamfered arches. Late C19 arched braced nave roof. Piscina with traceried gable. Stained glass pieces assembled by Archdeacon Postlethwaite and arranged by Joshua Price in 1716/19, including C15 English figures and continental C16 and C17 panels, and heraldic glass up to Price's own time. Octagonal font with quatrefoils containing shields. Some early C16 painted panels from former screen made up into chest. Monument: 1684 Robert Rogerson, tablet with inscription and stacks of books either side.

Listing NGR: TM2862587345