NHER 4332 (Building record) - St Mary's Church, South Town, Great Yarmouth

St Mary's Church, South Town.

Built 1831. The church was founded to serve the 'Parish of Gorleston with'Southtown otherwise Little Yarmouth with West Town'. It was designed by Scoles. It was not licensed until 1877 and did not become parochial until 1911.
See published article (S1) for further details.
E. Rose (NLA), 5 January 1996.

June 1953. Listed, Grade II.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Parish church. 1831. By JJ Scoles, extended in 1893. Gault brick. Slate roofs. Nave and narrow chancel with vestries added north and south of the chancel.
EXTERIOR: nave with five tall lancets to north and south separated by flat buttresses rising to low parapets. The buttresses have knapped flint panels. West front with a low narthex added 1925 entered through an arched doorway under a shouldered pediment and flanked by a small lancet right and left. Similar shouldered pediment framed between pair of tall square pinnacles to main wall containing three stepped lancets. Arched side doors. Wide gabled roof. Chancel with twin lancets north and south and a blind east end.
INTERIOR: no arcades. Suspended ceiling. Gallery round three walls and removed 1914. Triple pointed sedilia and piscina in chancel. Altar, reredos and panelling, pulpit and Litany desk relocated from Church of St Peter [NHER 12031] 1964 ."
Information from (S2).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S2) for the current listing details.
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2022.

Report (S3), produced ahead of the church's proposed closure details the internal fittings, and also states that the original galleries in the church have been removed, and that the porch and chancel are later 19th century additions. See also newspaper articule (S4).
E. Rose (NLA) 17 May 1996. Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 14 March 2022.