NHER 4126 (Building record) - St George's Church, Southacre

June 1960. Listed, Grade I.
Listing Description:
Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Pantile roofs. West tower; nave with north aisle and north porch; chancel with continuation of north aisle forming a funerary chapel. 15th century west tower with diagonal buttresses. Large 3-light panel-traceried west window with a 4-centred doorway below. Spandrels with blind tracery and a cusped hood mould. Harsyke family heraldic shields above doorway. 2-light cusped Y-traceried bell openings with 4-centred heads. Crenellated parapet. Wave- moulded nave south doorway. A 2-light window above in Decorated style with soufflet beneath a 4-centred arch. 2 panel-traceried 3-light windows beneath 4-centred arches. 2 2-light and one 3-light windows beneath flat heads with rectangular hood moulds. North aisle with 2 2-light and one 3-light windows beneath flat heads with rectangular hood moulds. 14th century doorway of 2 wave- moulded orders beneath a hood mould with carved head label stops. 4-centred double-ogee mouldedporch entrance arch with aniche to side and an ogee headed niche above. Single light cusped side windows. Priest's doorway hollow- chamfered with a hood mould. East and west aisle windows each of 3 cusped lights beneath segmental arches. 3 3-light uncusped clearstorey windows. Chancel with a fine late-Medieval east window of 4 Y-traceried lights beneath a very shallow 4-centred arch. 2 2-light south windows - flat headed to west, with soufflet beneath a 4-centred arch to each.
Interior. 3-bay main arcade with 2 14th century or 15th century bays on octagonal pier and polygonal responds supporting arches of 2 chamfered orders. 14th century westernmost bay of 2 wave moulded orders on filletted semicircular responds. Identical arch between chancel and north aisle. Tall tower arch of 4 chamfered orders without responds. Chancel arch of 2 hollow chamfered orders on polygonal responds. Restored hammerbeam nave roof with moulded principals and purlins and carved bosses. 15th century arch-braced aisle roof with embattled wall plate. Heavily restored arch-braced chancel roof. Chancel piscina with credence shelf beneath a cusped arch. 12th century font consisting of 3 shafts around a circular central pier supporting cushion capitals emerging from a square section bowl. Very tall 15th century font cover mostly a 20th century replica. 5 bays of a former chancel screen re-set beneath tower arch. Extremely eleaborate flamboyant tracery with reticulated motifs, fleurons and ogee arches with differing leaf carvings to each bay and turned shafts. Late-Medieval benches with embattled backs poppy head ends and 8 damaged carved arm rests representing lions. 3 late-Medieval brasses, of particular note in north chapel representing Sir John Harskye and his wife Katherine. In north aisle effigy of an unknown knight with crossed legs his feet resting on a lion. 17th century marble and alabaster monument to Sir Edward Barkham and his wife of exceptional quality with 2 full size effigies on a sarcophagus with Tuscan columns and weepers. Overmantel with heraldic aedicule flanked by a pair of carved statues representing Victory and Death. Winged hourglass to extremities. 13th century and 14th century glass fragments in north chapel. The chapel is divided from the north aisle by fine 17th century wrought iron railings.
Information from (S1).

Church with Norman font and probably the nave. Extensions notably in 1300 and perhaps earlier, altered 14th century, greatly altered 15th to 16th century. Very fine and important collection of brasses and monuments. Report (S2) in file.
E. Rose (NLA), 9 September 1991.

Remains of cross approximately 20metres north
October 1985. Listing, Grade II.
Listing Description:
Cross shaft and base. Probably 14th century. Limestone. Octagonal shaft with alternating flat and concave sides. Crocket stops. Set onto trough-like base with remains of corner spurs.
Information from (S1).

January 1997. Cross in churchyard scheduled
Scheduling description:
The monument includes the lower part of a medieval churchyard cross situated in the churchyard of St George's church, South Acre, c.20m south of the church and c.5m north west of the churchyard gate. The cross, which is also Listed Grade II and is thought to be of 14th or 15th century date, is of limestone and is constructed in two parts. At the base is a rectangular socket stone measuring c.0.74m east-west by c.0.78m north-south with spurs at the upper angles, and this is hollowed on the upper surface to a depth of c.3cm. The upper part of the shaft and head are missing. The socket stone is partly buried and stands c.0.3m above the present ground surface, and the shaft rises to a height of c.0.85m above this, the overall height being c.1.15m.
Information from (S3).

Press cutting (S5), works specification (S6) and photographs (S7) in file.