Church of St Michael Coslany

CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL COSLANY, OAK STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1372474
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
Church of St Michael Coslany
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL COSLANY, OAK STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1372474
Date first listed:
26-Feb-1954
List Entry Name:
Church of St Michael Coslany
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL COSLANY, OAK STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST MICHAEL COSLANY, OAK STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Norfolk
District:
Norwich (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TG 22828 08996

Details

TG 2209 SE,TG 2208 NE OAK STREET (east side) 10/587 15/587 26.2.54. Church of St. Michael Coslany. GV I Parish church now disused. Late C14, C15 and early C16. Flint with stone dressings. Ashlar faced north aisle and chapel. Brick. Slate roof. West tower, nave and chancel. North and south aisles. South chancel aisle and north chapel. 4 stage tower C.1425 with diagonal buttresses. West doorway with 2-centre arch having carved spandrels and shield frieze. Good 2-leaf door each with 3 panels of cusped tracery with birds and dragons in mouchettes surmounted by 2 figures. Outer border of crenellated divisions. 4-light Perpendicular window above door with flanking status niches having valuted canopies and finials. 3-light windows in top stages. Crenellated stone parapet with shield frieze and corner pinnacles. 4 bay nave:- 3-light Decorated quatrefoil west window with simple C15 south door to right. 2 bay south aisle and one bay south chancel aisle. Brick west wall to south aisle. 3 4-light Perpendicular aisle windows with 4-centre arches and brattishing on transomes in outer lights. Similar tracery pattern throughout. Flush- work on the south aisle with window and quatrefoil motifs, that on the chancel along with the east window of 1883. The north door has 3 orders of mouldings with central attached shaft and a 4-centre arch with drip- mould. Lancet window in chancel arch gable. 4-shaft piers with double order mouldings in diagonals and 4-centre arches to arcades. Springing of arch only in the west bay of the south arcade coinciding with the brick west wall. Blind store arcading in aisles with attached shafts. Tower arch. Chancel arch without piers. Scissor-brace roof to nave. Flat aisle roofs with arch-braces springing from wall posts. Arch-braced roof to chancel. The braces forming pointed arch profile and springing from wall-posts with shield corbels. Thorp chapel with stone open tracery screen and tomb.

Listing NGR: TG2282808996

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
229355
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2025. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2025. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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