NHER 7132 (Building record) - St Andrew's Church, Great Ryburgh

Round tower and west wall of church with both Late Saxon and Norman features. Nave doorways 13th century. Transepts 14th century. Chancel 15th century. South transept perhaps extended in 16th century. Tower heightened, perhaps at the same date the nave was rebuilt with rood windows, late 15th century.
Important early 19th century reordering. Later 19th century alterations. Additional works in 1912.
See report (S1) and photographs (S2) in file. (S3).
E. Rose (NAU), 20 April 1989.

June 2010. Historic building recording.
Prior to an application for grant-aid to repair and stabilise the northern transept gable-end and the repair and retiling of the nave a southern transept roofs. The church consists of a round western tower with a later 14th century bell stage. aiseless nave and very long transepts and a chancel. The earliest remains are the 12th century round tower and similarly dated masonry at the western end of the nave. The lower courses of the tower are characterised by the abundant use of ferruginous conglomerate. It occurs even in ashlar for the dressings of the tower arch and the north west quoins showing that the stone was quarried in the early 12th century. In the 15th century the nave walls were heightened and four tall panel-traceried nave windows were inserted. The chancel is essentially of 15th century construction that underwent a full scale remodelling in 1860 and in 1912 by Comper.
See (S4).
S. Howard (NLA), 26 July 2010.