Diameter: 19.75" Bell 1 of 7
Founded by Unidentified (blank)
Dove Bell ID: 59960 Tower ID: 23461 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Snettisham: St Mary
Overview
Grid reference: TF 690 342
Visiting and facilities
Building is open for worship
Church open regularly Grade I listed building Visitor parking nearby Toilets nearby or inside the church On a footpath, trail or cycle route Wheelchair accessible Local shop(s) or amenities nearby Stained Glass
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Footprint of Church buildings: 726 m²
Exterior Description
All late C14 Decorated, perhaps the best example of the style in Norfolk, possibly connected with the grant of the Manor by Edward III to John of Gaunt. Flint with stone dressings, lead roofs, stone spire. Originally cruciform, chancel demolished by Sir Wymond Carye before c.1600, north transept reduced 1597. Restored 1856 by Frederick Preedy, architect. Nave with west gallilee porch, clerestorey, north and south aisles, crossing tower with spire, south transept. Tripartite west front of nave gable and lean-to aisles, central tripartite porch, knapped flint with stone dressings, 3 buttressed Decorated piers with continuous chamfers supporting 3 stone ribbed vaults terminated against west wall of church with keel mouldings. Seat against wall, C19 west door. Slated chamber above with 2 lancets. Fine 6-light west window with complex pattern of Reticulation and flowing mouchettes. 2 flanking buttressed turrets with square faced set off buttresses at corners, expanded above as octagonal turrets, on south with internal staircase, on north with 4 corbelled squinch arches, both with battlemented collars at base of crowning conical turrets. 2 3-light aisle west windows, on south with 3 trefoils, on north with 4-leaf petal pattern with trefoil above. This pattern repeated alternately in the 4 3-light windows of the 5 bay north and south aisles, both buttressed, with north and south doors in second bay from west. Clerestorey of 10 bays alternately almost round headed arched 2-light windows and circular windows with 3 segmental hexafoils. Tracery on south side largely C19 recutting. Stone parapet to nave roof. South transept, 3 bays with 5- light south window with angle set-off buttresses and 2 C14 spout-heads, east side has one 2-light, one 3-light and one blocked window, west side one blocked window and 2 external memorial tablets. Chancel demolished, line visible and north east angle standing. Mid C19 window inserted in former east arch of crossing. North transept replaced by additional north transept bay with 2-light "Y" tracery window on east and 3-light intersected tracery window on south set in knapped and galletted flint wall, presumably re-used windows rather than marking an earlier beginning to the fabric; date stone and inscription "John Cremer and Thomas Banyard, church wardens weare ye townmen of Snettisham. Thys ille (aisle?) did repair Anno Do 1595". Fine central tower and spire, with earlier roof lines visible, deep sill set off above. Square faced buttresses at corners. Each face with tripartite partly blank partly open tracery divisions, on west face with 2 outer arches with trefoil heads, centre open with 2-light trefoil headed belfry window. On north, south and west sides blank tracery panels continued into lower stage as, 4 blank tracery panels with trefoils enclosing triangular heads. Set off buttresses inbetween. Set off buttresses at angles terminated above parapet with octagonal sections with spirelets and flying buttresses springing to spire with 2 ranks of gabled dormer windows, last rebuilt 1895, 175 feet in height.
As listed on Historic England website
Interior
Interior Description
5 bay north and south nave arcades with composite piers having 4 main shafts with 4 thin filleted shafts and 5 hollows, tall arches with stone seats at bases. Crossing arches with half piers, arches corresponding with those of nave. Aisles with tranverse half arches at east. 10 bay double framed nave roof partly rebuilt 1899 with arched braces and collars. C15 stone font with moulded capitals and abaci connecting with supports. C15 pulpit, largely late C19 restoration. Chancel furniture as 1939-1945 memorial, by Cecil Howard of South Walsham. Monuments: south aisle, woman of c.1560, a palimpsest of c.1500; north aisle John Cremer, churchwarden and family ob. 1610. North transept classical monument to Sir Wymond Carye obit 1612, recumbent alabaster effigy under cofferred arch with 2 columns, strapwork cartouche above, original iron railings to base. South transept with vaults and mausoleum of Styleman family of Snettisham Old Hall and Hunstanton Hall; monuments from 1680 to 1803, on 1807 signed Richard Cooke. Stained glass: west window by Willian Warrington 1846; south aisle west window by Michael O'Connor 1861; south aisle window by transept: Frederick Preedy (1858); north aisle window by transept perhaps Preedy (1861). See McAlpine, St. Mary Snettisham,(nd. np, c,1910), Harding, Snettisham,(1982).
As listed on Historic England website
Fixtures and fittings
Bell Frame
15th C
Maker
Pickford
Date
15th C
Visit
DLC 3/65
Description
Hollow Square Substantial
OFJ
0
Jurisdiction
Number of Bells
Material
Bells
F♯
Nominal: 1507.5 Hz Weight: 332 lbs Diameter: 23.75" Bell 2 of 7
Founded by Thomas Newman 1710
Dove Bell ID: 59961 Tower ID: 23461 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
E
Nominal: 1340.5 Hz Weight: 408 lbs Diameter: 25.5" Bell 3 of 7
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1958
Dove Bell ID: 59962 Tower ID: 23461 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
D
Nominal: 1191 Hz Weight: 432 lbs Diameter: 27.5" Bell 4 of 7
Founded by Thomas Newman 1710
Dove Bell ID: 59963 Tower ID: 23461 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
C♯
Nominal: 1128.5 Hz Weight: 564 lbs Diameter: 29" Bell 5 of 7
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1958
Dove Bell ID: 59964 Tower ID: 23461 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
B
Nominal: 1000 Hz Weight: 734 lbs Diameter: 33" Bell 6 of 7
Founded by Thomas Newman 1710
Dove Bell ID: 59965 Tower ID: 23461 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
A
Nominal: 893 Hz Weight: 919 lbs Diameter: 34.93" Bell 7 of 7
Founded by John Taylor & Co 1958
Dove Bell ID: 59966 Tower ID: 23461 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TF 690 342
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.
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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