NHER 39340 (Building record) - Our Lady Star of the Sea, Wells next the Sea
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Summary
Protected Status/Designation
Location
| Map sheet | TF94SW |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | WELLS NEXT THE SEA, NORTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full Description
April 2003. Listed, Grade II.
1928 by A.S.G. Butler in Arts and Crafts style, an unusual blend of vernacular and East Anglian Dutch and Cape Dutch.
Nave, aisles, transepts, chancel. East end is liturgically the west. Red brick and stone. Pantiled roofs. Windows imitate perpendicular style, but in aisles have hollow chamfered mullions. Transepts and chancel project only slightly. Interior semicircular arcades, east gallery, arch braced roof with kingposts and queen struts. Outside entrance are curving brick walls.
For full description see (S1), added in April 2003, which states it is an unusual, very fine and little altered example of a church of the period.
E. Rose (NLA), 20 May 2003.
Associated Sources (3)
- --- SNF99427 Designation: English Heritage. 1990-2013. English Heritage Listing Notification. Notification. DNF14897.
- --- SNF58263 Monograph: Pevsner, N. and Wilson, B. 1997. Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. The Buildings of England. 2nd Edition. p 711.
- <S1> SNF48662 Designation: Historic England. National Heritage List for England. List Entry 1450624.
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Record last edited
Feb 15 2021 6:18AM