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St Clement

St Clement

Outwell

Norfolk

C13 west tower, C14 nave, nave

Architectural Features

aisles remodelled C15, chancel C15 but rebuilt 1863, north transept chapel 1527, church restored 1887.

4-centred west door below 4-light C15 window.

Ringing chamber windows C13, of 2 arched lights on a round shaft.

C14 belfry windows of 2 cusped lights supporting a quatrefoil vesica.

3-light C14 flowing tracery window to west of 2 storeyed south porch.

South aisle illuminated though 2 transomed segmental-headed C15 windows of 6 or 7 lights.

4 3-light C15 north aisle windows with segmental heads.

Brick transeptal chapel of 1520's : diagonal buttresses, 4-light north window under depressed arch and 3-light segmental-headed side windows.

5 bay octagonal arcade of C14.

C15 tower arch with Perpendicular mouldings and angel capitals to responds.

The former in shape of carved angels bearing symbols and scrolls.

Carved figures stand on corbels.

3 painted angels decorate each tie beam and at intervals on wall plate.

Gabled south aisle with hammer beam roof, the hammer beams in form of angels.

Boarded ashlaring decorated with painted angels.

Against south wall a C14 4-centred cusped and sub-cusped founders tomb recess with fleurons and seaweed foliage.

Also in south chapel the Beaupre monument.

Tomb chest and recess to Nicholas Beaupre 1511, the tomb chest of Purbeck marble in alternating wide and narrow panels with floral decoration and shields.

Above this is alabaster achievement commemorating death of Edmund Beaupre 1567.

Crenellated and crested hammer posts stand on pierced arched braces which drop to carved angel corbels.

Carved angels also a hammer beams.

Octagonal font in nave with cusped tracery.

On north aisle north wall a brass of 1511 to Richard Quadryng : a man in armour, praying.

Fragments of late C15 stained glass in south chancel and of 3 wise men in north transeptal chapel.