NHER 62183 (Building record) - All Saints' Church, Great Fransham

All Saints' Church, Great Fransham.
Previously recorded as NHER 4206.

May 1960. Listed, Grade II*.
Listing Description excerpt:
"Parish Church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar dressings, rendered chancel and slate roofs. West tower, nave with north porch and former south aisle and chancel. Late 13th- and early 14th-century west tower with Y-traceried bell openings, diagonal buttresses and quatrefoil sound holes...14th-century moulded north doorway with dying mouldings. Fragments of chequer flushwork on porch. Four-bay 14th-century south arcade with columns, bell capitals, tall octagonal bases and four-centred arches of two orders hollow- chamfered and wave moulded. Tower arch with wave-moulded inner order on carved corbels. Chancel arch rebuilt on original 14th-century semicircular responds with three fillets per shaft and tall polygonal bases. 15th-century octagonal font with shields, bust bowl corbels and blind arcaded stem."
Information from (S1).
Please consult the National Heritage List for England (S1) for the current listing details.
P. Watkins (HES), 20 March 2023.

May 1978. Field Observation.
Visited by E. Rose (NAU):
South arcade with Early English piers, rebuilt into Perpendicular bases and arches.
Mid 14th century chancel arch, and west tower with plain Y tracery bell openings and cusped Y tracery west window, strangely off centre, perhaps 19th century, as is lead spire. All nave south windows 19th century.
North nave windows Perpendicular with embattled demi-transoms.
Chancel has no north or south windows and east window is 19th century.
Interior inaccessible at time of visit; Pevsner (S2) mentions brasses of 1414 and 1500; flagon, London 1722; chalice and paten. Visited by E. Compiled by E. Rose (NAU), 24 May 1978. Information from record card (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 March 2023.

Font stolen and replaced by that from St Etheldreda, Norwich, described by Pevsner (S2) as with two shields and heads under, 14th or 15th century. Details from A. Rogerson (NAU).
Compiled by E. Rose (NAU) 25 June 1984. Information from record card (S3).
Amended by P. Watkins (HES), 20 March 2023.

Rev Armstrong's Diary entry for the 1st August 1878 notes attending the reopening of the church.
Information from (S4).

See NHER 4206 for details of archaeological discoveries made within the churchyard of All Saints' Church, including the results of an excavation undertaken in 2007 and various finds recovered from disturbed soil and molehills from 1983 onwards.
P. Watkins (HES), 20 March 2023.